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to request for more information see allocation quotas if you haven t already set up authentication authentication verifies your identity for access to google cloud services and apis to run code or samples from a local development environment you can authenticate to compute engine by selecting one of the following options select the tab for how you plan to use the samples on this page console when you use the google cloud console to access google cloud services and apis you don t need to set up authentication gcloud install the google cloud cli after installation initialize the google cloud cli by running the following command gcloud init if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity note if you installed the gcloud cli previously make sure you have the latest version by running gcloud components update set a default region and zone 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 migs that use flex start vms 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 migs that use flex start vms to see the exact permissions that are required expand the required permissions section required permissions the following permissions are required to create migs that use flex start vms to create an instance template compute instancetemplates create on the project to create a mig compute instancegroupmanagers create on the project you might also be able to get these permissions with custom roles or other predefined roles create a mig that uses flex start vms to create a mig that uses flex start vms you must complete the following steps create an instance template that s configured for creating flex start vms create a regional or zonal mig create an instance template that s configured for creating flex start vms you must create an instance template that s configured for creating flex start vms as described in this section after you create the template you use it to create the mig note if you want to run data science or machine learning ml workloads then we recommend that you specify a deep learning vm images image in your instance template deep learning vm is a set of prepackaged os images that contain ml frameworks and essential tools for more information see choose an image in the deep learning vm documentation to create an instance template that s configured for creating flex start vms select one of the following options console in the google cloud console go to the instance templates page go to instance templates click create instance template the create an instance template page appears in the name field enter a name for the instance template in the location section select the type of instance template that you want to create for a regional instance template select regional and then select the region in which to create your template based on the machine type that you want your flex start vms to use specify a supported region for a global instance template select global in the machine configuration section select a supported machine series for flex start vms in the provisioning model section do the following in the vm provisioning model list select flex start to set a run duration for the vms that are created through the instance template in the enter number of hours field enter the number of hours that the vms run for the value must be between one hour 1 and seven days 168 when the vms reach the end of their run duration compute engine deletes each vm individually relative to its own creation time optional to change the default value boot disk type or image in the boot disk section click change then follow the prompts to change the boot disk click create gcloud to create an instance template that s configured for creating flex start vms use the gcloud compute instance templates create command the following command creates a regional instance template if you want to create a global instance template then use the same command without the instance template region flag gcloud compute instance templates create instance_template_name image project image_project image family image_family instance template region region instance termination action delete machine type machine_type maintenance policy terminate max run duration run_duration provisioning model flex_start reservation affinity none replace the following instance_template_name the name of the instance template to create image_project the image project that contains the image for example debian cloud for more information about the supported image projects see public images image_family an image family which specifies the most recent non deprecated os image for example if you specify debian 12 you use the latest version in the debian 12 image family for more information about using image families see image families best practices note if you want to use a specific version of the os image such as debian 12 bookworm v20240701 then replace the image family flag with the image flag region the region where to create the instance template based on the machine type that you want the flex start vms to use specify a supported region machine_type the gpu machine type or h4d machine type to use for the flex start vms if you specify an n1 machine type then you must include the accelerator flag to define the number and type of gpus to attach to your vms run_duration the duration you want the requested vms to run when the vms reach the end of their run duration compute engine deletes each vm individually relative to its own creation time you must format the run duration as the number of days hours minutes or seconds followed by d h m and s respectively for example specify 30m for 30 minutes or 1d2h3m4s for one day two hours three minutes and four seconds the value must be between 10 minutes and seven days rest to create an instance template that s configured for creating flex start vms make one of the following post requests to create a regional instance template regioninstancetemplates insert method to create a global instance template instancetemplates insert method for example to create a regional instance template make a request as follows post https compute googleapis com compute v1 projects project_id regions region instancetemplates name instance_template_name properties disks boot true initializeparams sourceimage projects image_project global images image machinetype machine_type networkinterfaces network global networks default reservationaffinity consumereservationtype no_reservation scheduling instanceterminationaction delete maxrunduration seconds run_duration onhostmaintenance terminate provisioningmodel flex_start replace the following project_id the id of the project in which to create the instance template region the region where to create the instance template based on the machine type that you want the flex start vms to use specify a supported region instance_template_name the name of the instance template image_project the image project that contains the image for example debian cloud for more information about the supported image projects see public images image specify one of the following a specific version of the os image for example debian 12 bookworm v20240617 an image family which must be formatted as family image_family this value specifies the most recent non deprecated os image for example if you specify family debian 12 the latest version in the debian 12 image family is used for more information about using image families see image families best practices machine_type the gpu machine type to use for the vms if you specify an n1 machine type then you must include the guestaccelerators field to define the number and type of gpus to attach to your vms run_duration the duration in seconds you want the requested vms to run when the vms reach the end of their run duration compute engine deletes each vm individually relative to its own creation time the run duration must be between 600 which is 600 seconds 10 minutes and 604800 which is 604 800 seconds seven days after you create the instance template you can view the template s details to review its properties create a regional or zonal mig create a regional or zonal mig as described in this section you must not configure autoscaling and must turn off repairs if your requested resources are unavailable then compute engine keeps attempting to allocate resources until the request succeeds you reduce the number of vms in the mig or you delete your mig to create regional or zonal mig select one of the following options console in the google cloud console go to the instance groups page go to instance groups click create instance group the create instance group page appears in the name field enter a name for the mig in the instance template list select the instance template that you created in the previous section in the number of instances field enter the number of flex start vms to create in the mig if your workload requires specific vm names then enter 0 to not create any vms after you create the mig add vms with specific names to it in the location section specify whether you want to create a zonal or a regional mig as follows to create a zonal mig select single zone or to create a regional mig select multiple zones select the region and zones for the mig if you re creating a regional mig then do the following in the target distribution shape field select any single zone in the dialog that appears click disable instance redistribution to delete the autoscaling configuration in the autoscaling section do the following click settings configure autoscaling in the autoscaling mode list click delete autoscaling configuration in the confirmation dialog click delete to turn off repairs in the action on failure section in the default action on failure list select no action click create gcloud to create a mig use the gcloud compute instance groups managed create command based on the type of mig that you want to create include the following flags in the command to create a zonal mig include the zone flag gcloud compute instance groups managed create instance_group_name default action on vm failure do nothing size size template instance_template_url zone zone to create a regional mig include the region and target distribution shape flags gcloud compute instance groups managed create instance_group_name default action on vm failure do nothing size size template instance_template_url region region target distribution shape shape replace the following instance_group_name the name of the mig instance_template_url the url of the instance template that you created in the previous section the url can contain either the id or the name of the instance template specify one of the following values for a regional instance template projects project_id regions region instancetemplates instance_template_id for a global instance template instance_template_id size the number of flex start vms to create in the mig if your workload requires specific vm names then specify 0 to not create any vms after you create the mig add vms with specific names to it zone the zone where to create the zonal mig if you use a regional instance template to create the mig then you must specify a zone within the same region as the template region the region where to create the regional mig if you use a regional instance template to create the mig then you must specify the same region as the template s region shape how your mig distributes the flex start vms across zones in your regional mig specify one of the following values to create vms in multiple zones based on availability any to create vms in a single zone based on availability any_single_zone for more information see regional mig target distribution shape rest to create a mig make a post request to one of the following methods to create a zonal mig make the following request to the instancegroupmanagers insert method post https compute googleapis com compute v1 projects project_id zones zone instancegroupmanagers name instance_group_name versions instancetemplate instance_template_url instancelifecyclepolicy defaultactiononfailure do_nothing targetsize size to create a regional mig make the following request to the regioninstancegroupmanagers insert method post https compute googleapis com compute v1 projects project_id regions region instancegroupmanagers name instance_group_name instancetemplate instance_template_url instancelifecyclepolicy defaultactiononfailure do_nothing targetsize size distributionpolicy targetshape shape replace the following project_id the id of the project in which to create the regional or zonal mig zone the zone where to create the zonal mig if you use a regional instance template to create the mig then you must specify a zone within the same region as the template region the region where to create the regional mig if you use a regional instance template to create the mig then you must specify the same region as the template s region instance_group_name the name of the mig instance_template_url the url of the instance template that you created in the previous section the url can contain either the id or the name of the instance template specify one of the following values for a regional instance template projects project_id regions region instancetemplates instance_template_id for a global instance template instance_template_id size the number of flex start vms to create in the mig if your workload requires specific vm names then specify 0 to not create any vms after you create the mig add vms with specific names to it shape how your mig distributes the flex start vms across zones in your regional mig specify one of the following values to create vms in multiple zones based on availability any to create vms in a single zone based on availability any_single_zone for more information see regional mig target distribution shape what s next learn how to view info about migs and managed vms learn how to view the actual and forecasted usage of your vms and gpus 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 developers site policies java is a registered trademark of oracle and or 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