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GCP Create Instance From Snapshot

September 17, 2019

There are two steps in creating an instance from a snapshot.

  1. Create a disk from snapshot
  2. Create an instance from the disk

Create a disk from snapshot.

gcloud compute disks create "hostname-boot" \
--project "project-id" \
--zone "us-central1-a" \
--source-snapshot "snapshot-name" \
--type "pd-standard" \
--size "100"

gcloud compute disks create "hostname-boot" \ --project "project-id" \ --zone "us-central1-a" \ --source-snapshot "snapshot-name" \ --type "pd-standard" \ --size "100"

Create an instance from disk.

gcloud beta compute instances create hostname \
--project=project-id \
--zone=us-central1-a \
--subnet=your-subnetwork \
--machine-type=n1-standard-1 \
--no-address \
--maintenance-policy=MIGRATE \
--service-account=service.account@developer.gserviceaccount.com \
--disk=name=instance-1,device-name=instance-1,mode=rw,boot=yes,auto-delete=yes \
--reservation-affinity=any \
--labels=builtby=john.doe \
--tags=web \
--scopes= \
--metadata=

gcloud beta compute instances create hostname \ --project=project-id \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --subnet=your-subnetwork \ --machine-type=n1-standard-1 \ --no-address \ --maintenance-policy=MIGRATE \ --service-account=service.account@developer.gserviceaccount.com \ --disk=name=instance-1,device-name=instance-1,mode=rw,boot=yes,auto-delete=yes \ --reservation-affinity=any \ --labels=builtby=john.doe \ --tags=web \ --scopes= \ --metadata=

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