There are two steps in creating an instance from a snapshot.
- Create a disk from snapshot
- 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" |
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= |