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GCP Find Instance Boot Disk

April 13, 2022

How to find a boot disk from an instance.

gcloud compute instances describe servername \
--format='get(disks[0].source)' \
--zone=us-central1-c \
--project project-id

Result

https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project-id/zones/us-central1-f/disks/servername-boot

GCP Keep Disk

May 6, 2021

Keep your disks when a VM is deleted.

gcloud compute instances set-disk-auto-delete server --no-auto-delete --disk=server-disk-1
gcloud compute instances set-disk-auto-delete server --no-auto-delete --disk=server-disk-2

To delete.

gcloud compute instances set-disk-auto-delete server --auto-delete --disk=server-disk-1
gcloud compute instances set-disk-auto-delete server --auto-delete --disk=server-disk-2

AWS Copy Snapshot to another Region

March 2, 2021

If you need to copy a snapshot from one region to another, here’s the AWS CLI command.

aws ec2 copy-snapshot \
    --region us-east-1 \
    --source-region us-east-2 \
    --source-snapshot-id snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \
    --description "This is the DR snapshot copy"

Output:

{
    "SnapshotId": "snap-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}