Google Cloud Create VM instance with Instance Template

Step-01: Introduction¶

Create an Instance Template
Create VM from Instance Template
Use CREATE SIMILAR option to create a clone of instance template

Step-02: Create Instance Template¶

Go to Compute Enginer -> Virtual Machines -> Instance Templates -> Create Instance Template -> Provide required details
Name: demo4-instance-template
Location: Regional
Region: us-central1
Machine Configuration:
Series: E2
Machine Type: e2-micro
Availability Policies:
VM Provisioning Model: Standard
Display Device: unchecked (leave to default)
Confidential VM Service: unchecked (leave to default)
Container: unchecked (leave to default)
Boot Disk: Leave to defaults
Identity and API Access:
Service Account: Compute Engine default Service Account
Access Scopes: Allow default Access
Firewall
Allow HTTP Traffic
Advanced Options
Management:
- Description: demo4-vm-startupscript
- Reservations: Automatically use created reservation (leave to default)
- Automation:
- Startup Script: Copy paste content from webserver-install.sh file
Click on Create

Step-03: Create VM Instance using Instance Template¶

Option-1: Go to Compute Engine -> VM Instances -> Create Instance -> New VM instance from template -> demo4-instance-template -> Click on Continue
Option-2: Go to Compute Engine -> Instance Templates -> demo4-instance-template -> Create VM
Name: demo4-vm-from-instance-template
Rest all verify if loaded from Instance Template
Click on Create

Step-04: Verify by accessing webserver pages¶

If required, you can do SSH connect and verify

# Access Webserver Pages
http://<external-ip-of-vm>

Step-05: Stop VM, Delete VM¶

Go to VM Instances -> demo4-instance-template -> delete

# Delete VM instnace
gcloud compute instances delete demo4-instance-template --zone us-central1-a

Step-05: Use CREATE SIMILAR Option in Instance Template¶

Use CREATE SIMILAR option to create a clone of instance template
Name: demo4-instance-template-v2

Step-06: Create Instance Template using gcloud cli¶

# Set Project
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
gcloud config set project gcplearn9

# Create Instance Template
gcloud compute instance-templates create demo4-it-v1 \
  --machine-type=e2-micro \
  --network-interface=network=default,network-tier=PREMIUM \
  --instance-template-region=us-central1 \
  --tags=http-server \
  --metadata-from-file=startup-script=webserver-install.sh