gce

Compute Engine

Compute & WebGCP

General

General information about the service.

Description

Google Compute Engine provides scalable, high-performance virtual machines running in Google's data centers and worldwide fiber network.

Service ID

compute.googleapis.com

Resource Pattern

projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instances/{instance}

References

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Naming Convention

gce-{workload}-{environment}

Length

1-63

Valid Characters

Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens

Scope

project

Code

Deploy your infrastructure as code using your preferred tooling.

Official Documentation Terraform

terraform

1resource "google_compute_instance" "main" {
2  name         = "gce-${var.environment}"
3  machine_type = "e2-medium"
4  zone         = var.zone
5
6  boot_disk {
7    initialize_params {
8      image = "debian-cloud/debian-11"
9    }
10  }
11
12  network_interface {
13    network = "default"
14  }
15}

Utilities

Utilities to support app deployment or configuration.

Google Cloud Console GCP

Cloud Shell Pricing