pvm

Preemptible VMs

Compute & WebGCP

General

General information about the service.

Description

Preemptible VMs are short-lived, cost-effective Compute Engine instances suitable for fault-tolerant and batch workloads. They offer up to 60-80% discount over regular instances.

Service ID

compute.googleapis.com

Resource Pattern

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

References

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Naming Convention

pvm-{workload}-{env}

Length

1-63

Valid Characters

Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens

Scope

zonal

Code

Deploy your infrastructure as code using your preferred tooling.

Official Documentation Terraform

terraform

1resource "google_compute_instance" "main" {
2  name         = "pvm-${var.workload}-${var.environment}"
3  machine_type = "e2-standard-4"
4  zone         = var.zone
5  scheduling {
6    preemptible       = true
7    automatic_restart = false
8  }
9  boot_disk {
10    initialize_params {
11      image = "debian-cloud/debian-11"
12    }
13  }
14  network_interface {
15    network = "default"
16  }
17}

Utilities

Utilities to support app deployment or configuration.

Google Cloud Console GCP

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