Equivalent of gcloud compute instances create-with-container

[Jonas-Sander]

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Description

I am trying to create an VM in Google Compute Engine which automatically runs a container that I uploaded to the Google Container Registry (as described here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/deploying-containers#how_deploying_containers_on_works)

The

gcloud compute instances create-with-container [INSTANCE_NAME] \
     --container-image [DOCKER_IMAGE]

command works so far, but I dont see any equivalent in Terraform.
From what I've seen google_compute_image is not what helps me.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• google_compute_instance

[nat-henderson]

No problem, that's very doable in Terraform, but like you've said, there is no direct equivalent. The reason for that is that GCP does not support it through the API:

You can only use this feature through the Google Cloud Console or the gcloud command-line tool, not the API.

One way to do it would be to use metadata_startup_script in google_compute_instance - simply select the Container Optimized OS image of your choice from this section and configure that in the image parameter. Then, write a startup script following these instructions (or, if you are an advanced user of COS, these instructions. It's possible that docker run $IMAGE is a sufficient startup script for you, depending on how your docker image is configured.

If that doesn't work for you, please comment again and I'll see what I can do!

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