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How to create VM in GCP with gcloud

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Below are the steps for creating VM in Google Cloud Platform with gcloud.
  • Before creating VM list available operating system image to use for the boot disk of your instance.

    • >> gcloud compute images list

  • Select any image and note down imgae family and imgae project. Run command in below format and select zone.

    • gcloud compute instances create [INSTANCE_NAME] \
    --image [IMAGE_ID] \
    --image-project [IMAGE_PROJECT]

    >> gcloud compute instances create computevm \
    --image-family debian-10 \
    --image-project debian-cloud

  • You should see output in below format after successful VM creation.

    • Created [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/test-project/zones/us-central1-a/instances/computevm].

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