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Alex Aslanoglou
Alex Aslanoglou

Reputation: 291

Compute Engine API - How to create an instance with container?

I'm trying to create a GCE instance "with a container" (as supported by gcloud CLI) by using POST https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances.

How can I pass the container image url in the request payload?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 224

Answers (2)

asherbret
asherbret

Reputation: 6018

It doesn't seem that there's an equivalent REST API for gcloud compute instances create-with-container ..., however as suggested by @user10880591's comment, Terraform can help. Specifically, the container-vm module deals with the generation of metadata required for this kind of action.

Usage example can be found here.

Upvotes: 0

user10880591
user10880591

Reputation: 71

If you are trying to set the "Machine Type", then you can specify the URL following the syntax mentioned in this document.

In document:

Full or partial URL of the machine type resource to use for this instance, in the format: zones/zone/machineTypes/machine-type. This is provided by the client when the instance is created. For example, the following is a valid partial url to a predefined machine type:

zones/us-central1-f/machineTypes/n1-standard-1

To create a custom machine type, provide a URL to a machine type in the following format, where CPUS is 1 or an even number up to 32 (2, 4, 6, ... 24, etc), and MEMORY is the total memory for this instance. Memory must be a multiple of 256 MB and must be supplied in MB (e.g. 5 GB of memory is 5120 MB):

zones/zone/machineTypes/custom-CPUS-MEMORY

For example: zones/us-central1-f/machineTypes/custom-4-5120 For a full list of restrictions, read the Specifications for custom machine types.

If you instead, you want to create a container cluster, then the API method mentioned in this link can help you.

Upvotes: 0

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