How to launch an instance in GCP using Terraform

Question

Hi Guys,

I want to launch one instance on the GCP cloud using Terraform. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use the google_compute_instance resource in Terraform. This resource has the capability to launch an instance n GCP Cloud. You can see the below example.

resource "google_compute_instance" "vm_instance" {
  name         = "terraform-instance"
  machine_type = "f1-micro"
  zone = "us-central1-a"
  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "debian-cloud/debian-9"
    }
  }
  network_interface {
    # A default network is created for all GCP projects
    network = "default"
    access_config {
    }
  }