Import an Instance with custom settings on GCP

Question

I want to import a VM instance onto GCP but with a few custom settings. The required settings are:

• Instance name: my-instance
• Operating system: Ubuntu 1404
• Network: custom-vpc network
• Subnet company-vpc-us-east1-c
• Zone: us-east1-c

How do i import an instance with these custom properties? 

Answer 1

Run the following command:

gcloud compute instances import my-instance --os ubuntu-1404 \
  --source-uri=gs://my-bucket/Ubuntu.ova \
  --network company-vpc \
  --subnet company-vpc-us-east1-c \
  --zone us-east1-c