Deprecate a custom image

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Compute Engine lets you deprecate a custom image that you own by setting the deprecation status on the image. Each deprecation status causes a different response from the server, helping you transition users away from unsupported images in a manageable way. Use the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, or the Compute Engine API method to deprecate an image.

Deprecation states

The following deprecation states are supported:

• ACTIVE: the image is active and can be used as normal. Image families point to the most recent and active image in a family.

• DEPRECATED: the image is marked deprecated but can still be used to create a VM. New links to this image are allowed. Image families no longer point to this image even if it is the most recent image in the family.

  If you create a VM with a deprecated image using the Google Cloud CLI, the request succeeds with a warning.

• OBSOLETE: the image is marked obsolete and is no longer available for use. An error message is returned if you try to use this image in a request. Existing links to this image are still allowed.

• DELETED: this image is deleted. An error message is returned if you try to use a deleted image.

You can revert a deprecation (make an image active again), by changing the deprecation state to ACTIVE.

Before you begin

• Read the Images document.
• If you haven't already, set up authentication. Authentication is the process by which your identity is verified for access to Google Cloud services and APIs. To run code or samples from a local development environment, you can authenticate to Compute Engine as follows.
  

  Select the tab for how you plan to use the samples on this page:

  Console

  When you use the Google Cloud console to access Google Cloud services and APIs, you don't need to set up authentication.

  gcloud

  1. Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

     gcloud init

     Note: If you installed the gcloud CLI previously, make sure you have the latest version by running gcloud components update.
  2. Set a default region and zone.

  REST

  To use the REST API samples on this page in a local development environment, you use the credentials you provide to the gcloud CLI.

  Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

  gcloud init

  For more information, see Authenticate for using REST in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

Deprecate a custom image

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Images page.

   Go to Images

2. For the image you want to deprecate, click Actions.

3. Select Deprecate.

4. For state, select either Deprecated or Obsolete. For more information about states, see Deprecation states.

5. Optional: Specify a replacement image.

6. Click Deprecate Image.

gcloud

Use the gcloud compute images deprecate command to set the deprecation status of an image.

gcloud compute images deprecate IMAGE_NAME \
    --state STATE \
    --replacement REPLACEMENT

Replace the following:

• IMAGE_NAME: the name of the image to deprecate
• STATE: the deprecation state
• REPLACEMENT: the image to replace the one that is deprecated

Go

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	compute "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1"
	computepb "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1/computepb"
	"google.golang.org/protobuf/proto"
)

// Geg a disk image from the given project
func deprecateDiskImage(
	w io.Writer,
	projectID, imageName string,
) error {
	// projectID := "your_project_id"
	// imageName := "my_image"

	deprecationStatus := &computepb.DeprecationStatus{
		State: proto.String(computepb.DeprecationStatus_DEPRECATED.String()),
	}

	ctx := context.Background()
	imagesClient, err := compute.NewImagesRESTClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("NewImagesRESTClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer imagesClient.Close()

	source_req := &computepb.DeprecateImageRequest{
		Project:                   projectID,
		Image:                     imageName,
		DeprecationStatusResource: deprecationStatus,
	}

	op, err := imagesClient.Deprecate(ctx, source_req)
	if err = op.Wait(ctx); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("unable to wait for the operation: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Disk image %s deprecated\n", imageName)

	return nil
}

Java

import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.DeprecateImageRequest;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.DeprecationStatus;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.Image;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.ImagesClient;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

public class SetImageDeprecationStatus {
  public static void main(String[] args)
          throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    // Project ID or project number of the Google Cloud project you want to use.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    // Name of the image you want to update.
    String imageName = "your-image-name";
    // The status you want to set for the image. Available values are available in
    // `compute_v1.DeprecationStatus.State` enum. Learn more about image deprecation statuses:
    // https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/create-delete-deprecate-private-images#deprecation-states
    DeprecationStatus.State status = DeprecationStatus.State.DEPRECATED;

    setDeprecationStatus(projectId, imageName, status);
  }

  // Modify the deprecation status of an image.
  public static Image setDeprecationStatus(String projectId, String imageName,
                                           DeprecationStatus.State status)
          throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
    // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
    try (ImagesClient client = ImagesClient.create()) {
      DeprecationStatus deprecationStatusResource = DeprecationStatus.newBuilder()
              .setState(status.name())
              .build();
      DeprecateImageRequest request = DeprecateImageRequest.newBuilder()
              .setProject(projectId)
              .setImage(imageName)
              .setDeprecationStatusResource(deprecationStatusResource)
              .setRequestId(UUID.randomUUID().toString())
              .build();

      client.deprecateCallable().futureCall(request).get(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

      Image image = client.get(projectId, imageName);

      System.out.printf("Status '%s' has been updated successfully",
              image.getDeprecated().getState());

      return image;
    }
  }
}

Python

from __future__ import annotations

import sys
from typing import Any

from google.api_core.extended_operation import ExtendedOperation
from google.cloud import compute_v1


def wait_for_extended_operation(
    operation: ExtendedOperation, verbose_name: str = "operation", timeout: int = 300
) -> Any:
    """
    Waits for the extended (long-running) operation to complete.

    If the operation is successful, it will return its result.
    If the operation ends with an error, an exception will be raised.
    If there were any warnings during the execution of the operation
    they will be printed to sys.stderr.

    Args:
        operation: a long-running operation you want to wait on.
        verbose_name: (optional) a more verbose name of the operation,
            used only during error and warning reporting.
        timeout: how long (in seconds) to wait for operation to finish.
            If None, wait indefinitely.

    Returns:
        Whatever the operation.result() returns.

    Raises:
        This method will raise the exception received from `operation.exception()`
        or RuntimeError if there is no exception set, but there is an `error_code`
        set for the `operation`.

        In case of an operation taking longer than `timeout` seconds to complete,
        a `concurrent.futures.TimeoutError` will be raised.
    """
    result = operation.result(timeout=timeout)

    if operation.error_code:
        print(
            f"Error during {verbose_name}: [Code: {operation.error_code}]: {operation.error_message}",
            file=sys.stderr,
            flush=True,
        )
        print(f"Operation ID: {operation.name}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
        raise operation.exception() or RuntimeError(operation.error_message)

    if operation.warnings:
        print(f"Warnings during {verbose_name}:\n", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
        for warning in operation.warnings:
            print(f" - {warning.code}: {warning.message}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)

    return result


def set_deprecation_status(
    project_id: str, image_name: str, status: compute_v1.DeprecationStatus.State
) -> None:
    """
    Modify the deprecation status of an image.

    Note: Image objects by default don't have the `deprecated` attribute at all unless it's set.

    Args:
        project_id: project ID or project number of the Cloud project that hosts the image.
        image_name: name of the image you want to modify
        status: the status you want to set for the image. Available values are available in
            `compute_v1.DeprecationStatus.State` enum. Learn more about image deprecation statuses:
            https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/create-delete-deprecate-private-images#deprecation-states
    """
    image_client = compute_v1.ImagesClient()
    deprecation_status = compute_v1.DeprecationStatus()
    deprecation_status.state = status.name
    operation = image_client.deprecate(
        project=project_id,
        image=image_name,
        deprecation_status_resource=deprecation_status,
    )

    wait_for_extended_operation(operation, "changing deprecation state of an image")

REST

Make a POST request to the images().deprecate method. Specify the name of the image you want to deprecate.

POST https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/global/images/RESOURCE_ID/deprecate

{
  "state": "STATE",
  "replacement": "REPLACEMENT"
}

Replace the following:

• PROJECT_ID: the project to which the image belongs.
• RESOURCE_ID: the name of the image that you are deprecating.
• STATE: the deprecation state of this resource.
• REPLACEMENT: the image to replace the one that is deprecated.