gcloud compute instance-groups managed create-instance - create a new virtual machine instance in a managed instance group with a defined name and optionally its stateful configuration
gcloud compute instance-groups managed create-instance NAME --instance=INSTANCE [--stateful-disk=[auto-delete=AUTO-DELETE],[device-name=DEVICE-NAME],[mode=MODE],[source=SOURCE]] [--stateful-metadata=KEY=VALUE,[KEY=VALUE,...]] [--region=REGION | --zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
gcloud compute instance-groups managed create-instance creates a virtual machine instance with a defined name and optionally its stateful configuration: stateful disk and stateful metadata key-values. Stateful configuration is stored in the corresponding newly created per-instance config. An instance with a per-instance config will preserve its given name, specified disks, and specified metadata key-values during instance recreation, auto-healing, updates, and any other lifecycle transitions of the instance.
To create an instance instance-1 in my-group (in region europe-west4) with metadata my-key: my-value and a disk disk-1 attached to it as the device device-1, run:
$ gcloud compute instance-groups managed create-instance my-group \ --region=europe-west4 --instance=instance-1 \ --stateful-disk='device-name=foo,source=https://compute.googleap\ is.com/compute/alpha/projects/my-project/zones/europe-west4/disks/di\ sk-1,mode=rw,auto-delete=on-permanent-instance-deletion' \ --stateful-metadata='my-key=my-value'
- NAME
Name of the managed instance group to create instance in.
- --instance=INSTANCE
Name of the new instance to create.
- --stateful-disk=[auto-delete=AUTO-DELETE],[device-name=DEVICE-NAME],[mode=MODE],[source=SOURCE]
Disks considered stateful by the instance group. Managed instance groups preserve and reattach stateful disks on VM autohealing, update, and recreate events.
You can also attach and preserve disks, not defined in the group's instance template, to a given instance.
The same disk can be attached to more than one instance but only in read-only mode.
- --stateful-metadata=KEY=VALUE,[KEY=VALUE,...]
Additional metadata to be made available to the guest operating system in addition to the metadata defined in the instance template.
Stateful metadata may be used to define a key/value pair specific for the one given instance to differentiate it from the other instances in the managed instance group.
Stateful metadata key/value pairs are preserved on instance recreation, autohealing, updates, and any other lifecycle transitions of the instance.
Stateful metadata have priority over the metadata defined in the instance template. This means that stateful metadata that is defined for a key that already exists in the instance template overrides the instance template value.
Each metadata entry is a key/value pair separated by an equals sign. Metadata keys must be unique and less than 128 bytes in length. Multiple entries can be passed to this flag, e.g., --stateful-metadata key-1=value-1,key-2=value-2,key-3=value-3.
- At most one of these can be specified:
- --region=REGION
Region of the managed instance group to create instance in. If not specified, you might be prompted to select a region (interactive mode only).
A list of regions can be fetched by running:
$ gcloud compute regions list
Overrides the default compute/region property value for this command invocation.
- --zone=ZONE
Zone of the managed instance group to create instance in. If not specified, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only).
A list of zones can be fetched by running:
$ gcloud compute zones list
Overrides the default compute/zone property value for this command invocation.
These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
These variants are also available:
$ gcloud alpha compute instance-groups managed create-instance
$ gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed create-instance