Create a Compute Engine instance

Use Terraform to create a Compute Engine instance

Code sample

Terraform

To learn how to apply or remove a Terraform configuration, see Basic Terraform commands. For more information, see the Terraform provider reference documentation.

# Create a VM instance from a public image
# in the `default` VPC network and subnet

resource "google_compute_instance" "default" {
  name         = "my-vm"
  machine_type = "n1-standard-1"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "ubuntu-minimal-2210-kinetic-amd64-v20230126"
    }
  }

  network_interface {
    network = "default"
    access_config {}
  }
}

resource "google_compute_network" "custom" {
  name                    = "my-network"
  auto_create_subnetworks = false
}

resource "google_compute_subnetwork" "custom" {
  name          = "my-subnet"
  ip_cidr_range = "10.0.1.0/24"
  region        = "europe-west1"
  network       = google_compute_network.custom.id
}


# Create a VM in a custom VPC network and subnet

resource "google_compute_instance" "custom_subnet" {
  name         = "my-vm-instance"
  tags         = ["allow-ssh"]
  zone         = "europe-west1-b"
  machine_type = "e2-small"
  network_interface {
    network    = google_compute_network.custom.id
    subnetwork = google_compute_subnetwork.custom.id
  }
  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "debian-cloud/debian-12"
    }
  }
}

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