Compute Engine API - 如何使用容器创建实例？

Question

I'm trying to create a GCE instance "with a container" (as supported by gcloud CLI ) by using POST https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances .

How can I pass the container image url in the request payload?

Answer 1

If you are trying to set the "Machine Type", then you can specify the URL following the syntax mentioned in this document .

In document:

Full or partial URL of the machine type resource to use for this instance, in the format: zones/zone/machineTypes/machine-type. This is provided by the client when the instance is created. For example, the following is a valid partial url to a predefined machine type:

zones/us-central1-f/machineTypes/n1-standard-1

To create a custom machine type, provide a URL to a machine type in the following format, where CPUS is 1 or an even number up to 32 (2, 4, 6, ... 24, etc), and MEMORY is the total memory for this instance. Memory must be a multiple of 256 MB and must be supplied in MB (eg 5 GB of memory is 5120 MB):

zones/zone/machineTypes/custom-CPUS-MEMORY

For example: zones/us-central1-f/machineTypes/custom-4-5120 For a full list of restrictions, read the Specifications for custom machine types.

If you instead, you want to create a container cluster, then the API method mentioned in this link can help you.

Answer 2

It doesn't seem that there's an equivalent REST API for gcloud compute instances create-with-container... , however as suggested by @user10880591's comment , Terraform can help. Specifically, the container-vm module deals with the generation of metadata required for this kind of action.

Usage example can be found here .