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
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
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
gcloud compute images create the-new-image-name \
--source-snapshot the-source-snapshot |
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