-
--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
.