Create images

[positlabs]

I'm attempting to automate our deployment process for compute engine, but I don't see any way to create images with this module. Is it possible?

Looking at the compute engine docs, it seems like it should be.

[callmehiphop]

We currently don't support the Image API, however as a temporary workaround I think you can use Compute#request to make the request.

var compute = gcloud.compute();

compute.request({
  method: 'POST',
  uri: '/global/images',
  json: {
    name: 'image-name',
    rawDisk: {
      source: 'storage-path'
    }
  }
}, function(err, resp) {
  if (err) {
    // request error
  }

  var operation = compute.operation(resp.name);

  operation.on('complete', function() {
    // image is created
  });

  operation.on('error', function() {
    // error occured
  });
});

[stephenplusplus]

Thanks for writing up that code @callmehiphop. That should indeed work.

We have an issue tracking all of the missing APIs from GCE that we still have to implement: #1073. Help is very welcome :)

[matsilva]

@callmehiphop thanks for this!