spot

Spot VMs

Compute & WebGCP

General

General information about the service.

Description

Google Cloud Spot VMs are highly affordable compute instances suitable for fault-tolerant batch jobs and workloads.

Service ID

compute.googleapis.com

Resource Pattern

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

References

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Naming Convention

spot-{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" "spot" {
2  name         = "spot-${var.environment}"
3  machine_type = "e2-medium"
4  zone         = var.zone
5
6  scheduling {
7    preemptible                 = true
8    automatic_restart           = false
9    provisioning_model          = "SPOT"
10    instance_termination_action = "STOP"
11  }
12
13  boot_disk {
14    initialize_params {
15      image = "debian-cloud/debian-11"
16    }
17  }
18
19  network_interface {
20    network = "default"
21  }
22}

Utilities

Utilities to support app deployment or configuration.

Google Cloud Console GCP

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