Google Cloud Compute API

create-instance.js

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const Compute = require('@google-cloud/compute');

// Creates a client
const compute = new Compute();

async function quickstart() {
  // Create a new VM using the latest OS image of your choice.
  const zone = compute.zone('us-central1-c');

  // TODO(developer): choose a name for the VM
  const vmName = 'vm-name';

  // Start the VM create task
  const [vm, operation] = await zone.createVM(vmName, {os: 'ubuntu'});
  console.log(vm);

  // `operation` lets you check the status of long-running tasks.
  await operation.promise();

  // Complete!
  console.log('Virtual machine created!');
}
quickstart();