GCP | How to create VM with Deployment Manager

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Deployment Manager in GCP automates the creation and management of Google Cloud resources. With Deployment Manager Python or Jinja2 templates can be used for parametrization.

Click Activate Cloud Shell

to open Cloud Shell.

Create and navigate to directory "test-vm"


mkdir test-vm
cd test-vm

Create config file with name "vm-config.yaml"


nano vm-config.yaml

Write following code in "vm-config.yaml"


imports:
  - path: vm.jinja
resources:
- name: test-instance
  type: vm.jinja
  properties:
    zone: us-central1-f
    machineType: f1-micro

Create template with name "vm.jinja"


nano vm.jinja

Write following code in "vm.jinja"


resources:
- type: compute.v1.instance
  name: {{ env["deployment"] }}-instance
  properties:
     machineType: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{{ env["project"] }}/zones/{{ properties["zone"] }}/machineTypes/{{ properties["machineType"] }}
     zone: {{ properties["zone"] }}
     networkInterfaces:
     - subnetwork: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{{ env["project"] }}/regions/us-central1/subnetworks/default
     disks:
      - deviceName: boot
        type: PERSISTENT
        boot: true
        initializeParams:
          sourceImage: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-9

Deploy the configuration with following command


gcloud deployment-manager deployments create testinfra --config=vm-config.yaml

Successful execution should produce following output


Create operation operation-1587****862-5a*******ad104-bacbcabb-7*****bc completed successfully.
NAME                TYPE                 STATE      ERRORS  INTENT
testinfra-instance  compute.v1.instance  COMPLETED  []

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