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# Selecting a Bastion Hardware Instance Type

The type of host to use for your bastion depends on your deployment plans. Google offers a detailed list from their general-purpose machine family, with hardware specifications for each. Select and prepare a host that adapts to your CPU, memory, storage, and pricing needs.

For the examples here, we will use a `e2.medium` as the bastion instance type. What follows are a few example configuration tasks and the OMT bootstrap install. Your own environment configuration needs might differ.

Once you've selected a bastion host, record its type in in the Google Cloud worksheet(add link to worksheet).