GCP Create Images
Here’s how to create a GCP Disk Image from a Boot Drive.
- First, stop the instance.
- If you can’t, stop the applications/database from writing to disks.
- Run sudo sync .
Create From Disk
<pre lang="bash">
gcloud compute images create the-new-image-name \
--source-disk the-source-boot-disk \
--source-disk-zone us-central1-a \
--family the-image-family \
[--force]
Create From Image
<pre lang="bash">
gcloud compute images create the-new-image-name \
--source-image the-source-image \
--source-image-project the-project-where-the-image-is-located \
--family the-image-family
Create From Snapshot
<pre lang="bash">
gcloud compute images create the-new-image-name \
--source-snapshot the-source-snapshot
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