How do I create a preemptible virtual machine VM instance

Question

I want to create a preemptible instance of a virtual machine due to some budget restrictions. I have installed the command-line tool for the Google Cloud Platform called gcloud.

How can I create a preemptible instance of a virtual machine using gloud?

Answer 1

With gcloud compute, use the same instances create command that you would use to create a normal instance, but add the --preemptible flag.

gcloud compute instances create [INSTANCE_NAME] --preemptible

where [INSTANCE_NAME] is the name of the instance.