Create a specific version of a user-managed notebooks instance

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This page describes how you can create a user-managed notebooks instance based on a specific Deep Learning VM Images version.

Why you might want to create a specific version

To ensure that your user-managed notebooks instance has software that is compatible with your code or application, you might want to create a specific version.

User-managed notebooks instances are created by using Deep Learning VM images. Deep Learning VM images are updated frequently, and specific versions of preinstalled software and packages vary from version to version.

To learn more about specific Deep Learning VM versions, see the Deep Learning VM release notes.

After you create a specific version of a user-managed notebooks instance, you can upgrade it. Upgrading the instance updates the preinstalled software and packages. For more information, see Upgrade a user-managed notebooks instance's environment.

Before you begin

To create a Google Cloud project and enable the Notebooks API, complete the steps in Before you begin.

Find the specific version that you want

To create a user-managed notebooks instance based on a specific Deep Learning VM version, you must know the image name of the specific Deep Learning VM version that you want to use.

Each release of Deep Learning VM includes updates to many different images, and each image in the release has its own image name.

To find the specific image name that you want, list all of the image names included in a Deep Learning VM release by completing the following steps:

  1. Find the Deep Learning VM release number that you want to get image names for. Release numbers are included in the Deep Learning VM release notes. Release numbers are in the form of an M followed by the number of the release, for example, M79.

  2. To list the image names for a specific Deep Learning VM release, run the following command.

    gcloud compute images list --project="deeplearning-platform-release" \
    --format="value(name)" \
    --filter="labels.release=RELEASE_NUMBER" \
    --show-deprecated

    Replace RELEASE_NUMBER with a Deep Learning VM release number, such as M79.

  3. Find the image name that you want to use.

Create a specific version from the command line

To create a specific version of a user-managed notebooks instance from the command line, complete the following steps:

  1. Run the following gcloud notebooks command:

    gcloud notebooks instances create INSTANCE_NAME \
    --vm-image-project="deeplearning-platform-release" \
    --vm-image-name=VM_IMAGE_NAME \
    --machine-type=MACHINE_TYPE \
    --location=LOCATION

    Replace the following:

    • INSTANCE_NAME: the name of your new instance
    • VM_IMAGE_NAME: the image name that you want to use to create your instance
    • MACHINE_TYPE: the machine type of your instance's VM
    • LOCATION: the Google Cloud location where you want your new instance to be

  2. Access your instance from the Google Cloud console.

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