Terraform: Support for GCP Image Family when provisioning instances

Created on 8 Jul 2016 · 4Comments · Source: hashicorp/terraform

When provisioning GCP instances off of public images, it appears that Google is moving to the use of the "image family" api, rather than the specific project/image format. This is shown in their documentation both here and here.

In addition to the current image argument in the google_compute_instance.disk block, there should be the option to instead use the image family api endpoint

enhancement providegoogle-cloud

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cblecker

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This already works if you specify a full URL in the disk { image = ... } field.

For a public image family:

https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-8

For a private image family:

https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/my-project/global/images/family/my-family

It might be nice if it worked without the full URL though.

zbjornson on 9 Aug 2016

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This already works if you specify a full URL in the disk { image = ... } field.

For a public image family:

https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-8

For a private image family:

https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/my-project/global/images/family/my-family

It might be nice if it worked without the full URL though.

zbjornson on 9 Aug 2016

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Thanks for this, @zbjornson. Confirmed that specifying the full URL does indeed work.

cblecker on 9 Aug 2016

Closed via #8083

stack72 on 15 Aug 2016

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