NAME
gcloud compute images create - create Google Compute Engine images
SYNOPSIS
gcloud compute images create   NAME   [--description   DESCRIPTION]   [--format   FORMAT]   [--help]   [--project   PROJECT_ID]   [--quiet,   -q]   [--source-disk-zone   SOURCE_DISK_ZONE]   [--source-disk   SOURCE_DISK   |   --source-uri   SOURCE_URI]   [-h]
DESCRIPTION
gcloud compute images create is used to create custom disk images. The resulting image can be provided during instance or disk creation so that the instance attached to the resulting disks has access to a known set of software or files from the image.
Images can be created from gzipped compressed tarball containing raw disk data or from existing disks in any zone.
Images are global resources, so they can be used across zones and projects.
To learn more about creating image tarballs, visit https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/images.
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
NAME
The name of the image to create.
FLAGS
--description DESCRIPTION
An optional, textual description for the image being created.
--source-disk SOURCE_DISK
A source disk to create the image from. The value for this option can be the name of a disk with the zone specified via --source-disk-zone flag.
This flag is mutually exclusive with --source-uri.
--source-disk-zone SOURCE_DISK_ZONE
The zone of the disk specified by --source-disk. If not specified, you will be prompted to select a zone.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the compute/zone property:
$ gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE
A list of zones can fetched by running:
$ gcloud compute zones list
To unset the property, run:
$ gcloud config unset compute/zone
Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.
--source-uri SOURCE_URI
The full Google Cloud Storage URI where the disk image is stored. This file must be a gzip-compressed tarball whose name ends in .tar.gz.
This flag is mutually exclusive with --source-disk.
GLOBAL FLAGS
--format FORMAT
Specify a format for printed output. By default, a command-specific human-friendly output format is used. Setting this flag to one of the available options will serialize the result of the command in the chosen format and print it to stdout. Supported formats are: json, text, yaml.
--help
Display detailed help.
--project PROJECT_ID
The Google Cloud Platform project name to use for this invocation. If omitted then the current project is assumed.
--quiet, -q
Disable all interactive prompts when running gcloud commands. If input is required, defaults will be used, or an error will be raised.
-h
Print a summary help and exit.
NOTES
This command is in the Google Cloud SDK compute component. See installing components if it is not installed.