NAME

gcloud-compute-images-create - Create Google Compute Engine images

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute images create
  NAME
  [--description DESCRIPTION]
  [--format FORMAT]
  [--help]
  [--project PROJECT]
  [--quiet, -q]
  [--source-disk-zone SOURCE_DISK_ZONE]
  [--source-disk SOURCE_DISK | --source-uri SOURCE_URI]
  [-h]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud compute images create is used to create custom disk images. The resulting image can be provided during instance or disk creation so that the instance attached to the resulting disks has access to a known set of software or files from the image.

Images can be created from gzipped compressed tarball containing raw disk data or from existing disks in any zone.

Images are global resources, so they can be used across zones and projects.

To learn more about creating image tarballs, visit https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/images .

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

NAME

The name of the image to create.

FLAGS

--description DESCRIPTION

An optional, textual description for the image being created.

--format FORMAT

Specify a format for printed output. By default, a command-specific human-friendly output format is used. Setting this flag to one of the available options will serialize the result of the command in the chosen format and print it to stdout. Supported formats are: "json", "text", "yaml".

--help

Display detailed help.

--project PROJECT

Google Cloud Platform project to use for this invocation.

--quiet

Disable all interactive prompts when running gcloud commands. If input is required, defaults will be used, or an error will be raised.

--source-disk SOURCE_DISK

A source disk to create the image from. The value for this option can be the name of a disk with the zone specified via “--source-disk-zone” flag.

This flag is mutually exclusive with “--source-uri”.

--source-disk-zone SOURCE_DISK_ZONE

The zone of the disk specified by --source-disk. If not specified, you will be prompted to select a zone.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the “compute/zone” property:

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can fetched by running:

gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable “CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE”.

--source-uri SOURCE_URI

The full Google Cloud Storage URI where the disk image is stored. This file must be a gzip-compressed tarball whose name ends in “.tar.gz”.

This flag is mutually exclusive with “--source-disk”.

-h

Print a summary help and exit.

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