gcloud compute instances create

gcloud compute instances create (doc)

gcloud compute instances create VM_NAME --image-family=IMAGE_FAMILY --image-project=IMAGE_PROJECT --metadata enable-oslogin=TRUE

--metadata enable-oslogin=TRUE
--shielded-secure-boot
--deletion-protection

Example

Ubuntu LTS:

gcloud compute instances create my-small-vm --machine-type=f1-micro --zone=us-central1-a --image-family=ubuntu-2404-lts --image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud

Debian:

gcloud compute instances create my-small-vm --machine-type=f1-micro --zone=us-central1-a --image-family=debian-10 --image-project=debian-cloud

Official example:

gcloud compute instances create example-instance --image-family=rhel-8 --image-project=rhel-cloud --zone=us-central1-a

Related terms

• aws ec2 run-instances
• gcloud compute instances list
• gcloud init
• Terraform resource: google_compute_instance
• Ops Agent

See also

• gcloud compute instances [ create | describe | attach-disk | create | reset | add-metadata ]