Sample script to create a Google Compute Engine VM instance

create-instance.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo -e "\nCreate remote instance"

echo -e "\n# 1/2 - Loading and setting options..."
## Show commands (if you want to check, uncomment it)
#set -x

## Stop on errors
set -e

## Include config
source config.sh

## Set GCP compute zone
gcloud config set project ${PROJECT}
gcloud config set compute/zone ${ZONE}

## Create instance
echo -e "\n# 1/2 - Creating Compute Instance..."
gcloud compute instances create ${INSTANCE_NAME} \
--image-family ${IMAGE_FAMILY} \
--image-project ${IMAGE_PROJECT} \
--machine-type ${MACHINE_TYPE} \
--zone ${ZONE} \
--tags ${TAGS} \
--${DELETION_PROTECTION}