Managing Single Virtual Machine Instances
We begin by discussing how to manage a single instance of a VM. By single instance, we mean one created by itself and not in an instance group or other type of cluster. Recall from previous chapters that there are three ways to work with instances: in Cloud Console, in Cloud Shell, and with the Cloud SDK command line. Both Cloud Shell and the Cloud SDK command lines make use of gcloud commands, so we will describe Cloud Shell and Cloud SDK together in this section.
Managing Single Virtual Machine Instances in the Console
The basic VM management tasks that a cloud engineer should be familiar with are creating, stopping, and deleting instances. We covered creating instances in the previous chapter, so we’ll focus on the other tasks here. You should also be familiar with listing VMs, attaching graphics processing units (GPUs) to VMs, and working with snapshots and images.
Starting, Stopping, and Deleting Instances
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