Creating GCE instances

Creating a virtual machine is the most basic building block of the GCE. A default network is created for us to boot the virtual machine in. However, in many cases, we would want to create a separate virtual network for the sake of isolation.

How to do it…

1. Let us start by creating a network in the us-west1 region where we will boot our instances:

- name: Create Custom Network
  gce_net:
    name: my-network
    mode: custom
    subnet_name: "public-subnet"
    subnet_region: us-west1
    ipv4_range: '10.0.0.0/24'
    state: "present"
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
  tags:
  - recipe2

2. Now we will get the static IP:

- name: create public ip
  gce_eip:
    name: app
    region: us-west1
    state: present
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
  register: app_eip
  tags...