Method: projects.locations.instances.create

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Query parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization Scopes
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Creates an instance.

HTTP request

POST https://file.googleapis.com/v1beta1/{parent=projects/*/locations/*}/instances

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent	string Required. The instance's project and location, in the format projects/{projectId}/locations/{location}. In Cloud Filestore, locations map to GCP zones, for example us-west1-b.

Query parameters

Parameters
instanceId	string Required. The ID of the instance to create. The ID must be unique within the specified project and location. This value must start with a lowercase letter followed by up to 62 lowercase letters, numbers, or hyphens, and cannot end with a hyphen.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of Instance.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation.

Authorization Scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.