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GCP Spot Instance

November 25, 2021

You can save anywhere from 60-91% using a spot instance. The downside is, the instance can be preempted anytime.

Create a spot instance.

gcloud beta compute instances create spot-example \
--provisioning-model=SPOT \
--instance-termination-action=STOP \
--image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud \
--image-family=ubuntu-2004-lts \
--machine-type=e2-micro \
--project=your-project-id \
--zone=us-central1-a

gcloud beta compute instances create spot-example \ --provisioning-model=SPOT \ --instance-termination-action=STOP \ --image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud \ --image-family=ubuntu-2004-lts \ --machine-type=e2-micro \ --project=your-project-id \ --zone=us-central1-a

Delete instance.

gcloud compute instances delete spot-example \
--project=your-project-id \
--zone=us-central1-a

gcloud compute instances delete spot-example \ --project=your-project-id \ --zone=us-central1-a

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