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is returned and you are using an external identity provider idp confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see set up authentication for a local development environment go to use the go samples on this page in a local development environment install and initialize the gcloud cli and then set up application default credentials with your user credentials install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity if you re using a local shell then create local authentication credentials for your user account gcloud auth application default login you don t need to do this if you re using cloud shell if an authentication error is returned and you are using an external identity provider idp confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see set up authentication for a local development environment java to use the java samples on this page in a local development environment install and initialize the gcloud cli and then set up application default credentials with your user credentials install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity if you re using a local shell then create local authentication credentials for your user account gcloud auth application default login you don t need to do this if you re using cloud shell if an authentication error is returned and you are using an external identity provider idp confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see set up authentication for a local development environment node js to use the node js samples on this page in a local development environment install and initialize the gcloud cli and then set up application default credentials with your user credentials install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity if you re using a local shell then create local authentication credentials for your user account gcloud auth application default login you don t need to do this if you re using cloud shell if an authentication error is returned and you are using an external identity provider idp confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see set up authentication for a local development environment php to use the php samples on this page in a local development environment install and initialize the gcloud cli and then set up application default credentials with your user credentials install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity if you re using a local shell then create local authentication credentials for your user account gcloud auth application default login you don t need to do this if you re using cloud shell if an authentication error is returned and you are using an external identity provider idp confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see set up authentication for a local development environment python to use the python samples on this page in a local development environment install and initialize the gcloud cli and then set up application default credentials with your user credentials install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity if you re using a local shell then create local authentication credentials for your user account gcloud auth application default login you don t need to do this if you re using cloud shell if an authentication error is returned and you are using an external identity provider idp confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see set up authentication for a local development environment ruby to use the ruby samples on this page in a local development environment install and initialize the gcloud cli and then set up application default credentials with your user credentials install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity if you re using a local shell then create local authentication credentials for your user account gcloud auth application default login you don t need to do this if you re using cloud shell if an authentication error is returned and you are using an external identity provider idp confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see set up authentication for a local development environment rest to use the rest api samples on this page in a local development environment you use the credentials you provide to the gcloud cli install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see authenticate for using rest in the google cloud authentication documentation required roles to get the permissions that you need to create instances ask your administrator to grant you the compute instance admin v1 roles compute instanceadmin v1 iam role on the project for more information about granting roles see manage access to projects folders and organizations this predefined role contains the permissions required to create instances to see the exact permissions that are required expand the required permissions section required permissions the following permissions are required to create instances compute instances create on the project to use a custom image to create the vm compute images usereadonly on the image to use a snapshot to create the vm compute snapshots usereadonly on the snapshot to use an instance template to create the vm compute instancetemplates usereadonly on the instance template to specify a subnet for your vm compute subnetworks use on the project or on the chosen subnet to specify a static ip address for the vm compute addresses use on the project to assign an external ip address to the vm when using a vpc network compute subnetworks useexternalip on the project or on the chosen subnet to assign a legacy network to the vm compute networks use on the project to assign an external ip address to the vm when using a legacy network compute networks useexternalip on the project to set vm instance metadata for the vm compute instances setmetadata on the project to set tags for the vm compute instances settags on the vm to set labels for the vm compute instances setlabels on the vm to set a service account for the vm to use compute instances setserviceaccount on the vm to create a new disk for the vm compute disks create on the project to attach an existing disk in read only or read write mode compute disks use on the disk to attach an existing disk in read only mode compute disks usereadonly on the disk you might also be able to get these permissions with custom roles or other predefined roles methods to create and start an instance this section describes the basic methods that you can use to create and start a compute engine instance this procedure is intended for introductory purposes only for detailed steps on how to configure and create your instances see the create and start instances with specific configurations section instead for beginners google recommends using the google cloud console the google cloud cli or the rest api review the following instructions to learn the general process for creating an instance with each method optionally you can generate the code to create an instance for google cloud cli rest or terraform by using the code equivalent code button on the create an instance page in the google cloud console generating code can help you learn syntax and prevent errors learn more about google cloud console features for compute engine console in the google cloud console go to the create an instance page go to create an instance the create an instance screen appears and displays the machine configuration pane to configure instance properties use the options in the navigation menu as follows tip for a summary of the options in the navigation menu see configuration options during instance creation to configure instance properties related to name location or machine configuration click machine configuration in the machine configuration pane that appears specify values for the properties that you want to configure to configure instance properties related to boot disk operating system os and additional non boot storage options click os and storage in the operating system and storage pane that appears specify values for the properties that you want to configure to configure instance properties related to backup and data replication click data protection in the data protection pane that appears specify values for the properties that you want to configure to configure instance properties related to network interface and firewall settings click networking in the networking pane that appears specify values for the properties that you want to configure to configure instance properties related to ops agent and virtual displays click observability in the observability pane that appears specify values for the properties that you want to configure to configure instance properties related to security and access click security in the security pane that appears specify values for the properties that you want to configure to configure instance properties related to metadata reservations resource organization provisioning type and sole tenancy click advanced in the advanced pane that appears specify values for the properties that you want to configure to create and start your instance click create gcloud to create an instance with your own configuration use the gcloud compute instances create command you can t use this command to create instances in bulk or instances that run container images instead do the following to create instances in bulk use the gcloud compute instances bulk create command to create instances to deploy containers use the gcloud compute instances create with container command rest to create an instance with your own configuration make a post request to the instances insert method you can t use this method to create instances in bulk instead make a post request to the instances bulkinsert method create and start instances with specific configurations each of the following documents provides instructions for how to create and start an instance that uses one or more specific configuration options based on your use case you can create an instance that uses configuration options from multiple documents by combining the instructions to learn about the various parameters that you can configure while creating your instance review configuration options available during instance creation preconfigured for you create a google configured workload optimized instance customized machine configuration create an instance with a custom hostname create an instance with a custom machine type create an instance with attached gpus create an instance with attached tpus specify a minimum cpu platform for an instance customized os configuration create an instance from a public image create an instance from a custom image create an instance from a shared image create an instance using a rhel byos image customized networking configuration create an instance in a specific subnet create an instance that uses ipv6 addresses create instances that use the gvnic network interface configure an instance with higher bandwidth customized observability configuration create an instance that s configured for ops agent monitoring and logging enable virtual displays on an instance customized security configuration create an instance that uses a user managed service account create vms with managed workload identities enabled enable os login during vm creation configured for disaster recovery create an instance with a backup and dr backup plan from a backup create an instance from a machine image create an instance from a disk snapshot restore an instance from a backup vault from existing configurations create an instance from an instance template create an instance similar to an existing instance configured for specific workloads create an instance to deploy a container create windows server instances create sql server instances create an instance with a high performance computing hpc image customized provisioning type create a spot instance create instances that consume reserved instances multiple instances at once create a managed instance group mig create instances in bulk sole tenant nodes create instances on sole tenant nodes efficient instances create an instance with an attached instance schedule troubleshooting to find methods for resolving common instance creation errors see troubleshooting instance creation what s next learn how to check the status of an instance to see when it is ready to use learn how to connect to your instance learn how to scale out your instance into a group of instances learn how to reserve capacity for your instances learn how to save on instance costs through committed use discounts and sustained use discounts try it for yourself if you re new to google cloud create an account to evaluate how compute engine performs in real world scenarios new customers also get 300 in free credits to run test and deploy workloads try compute engine free send feedback except as otherwise noted the content of this page is licensed under the creative commons attribution 4 0 license and code samples are licensed under the apache 2 0 license for details see the google 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