How do you create an instance using google-api-client?

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When I run a python program it's as simple as writing into terminal python myprogram.py. Now, I'm trying to run that program on a google vm instance and shut it off with as few steps as possible. I'm trying to get it all written down in a python program, but I was told that my method of using the subprocess module is not the right way to do it. I was told that the best way to do it is to use the googleapiclient module. So the current I use to create an instance is:

def create_instance(name='', machine_type=''):
    name = 'kfoley76'
    machine_type = 'n1-standard-1'

    subprocess.run(['gcloud', 'compute', 'instances', 'create',
                     name, f'--machine-type={machine_type}',
                     '--zone=us-west2-a', '--boot-disk-auto-delete'])

How would I rewrite that using googleapiclient module. I assume the answer would be located here

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances/start

but that documentation is utterly incomprehensible.

Have you looked into Google's Python sample code? github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/blob/… — paragbaxi
– paragbaxi, Commented Dec 31, 2019 at 18:10

DazWilkin · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-01 05:23:02Z

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Please see the tutorial I mentioned in my answer to your other question. I'm confident it will get you exactly what you need.

answered Jan 1, 2020 at 5:23

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2 Comments

logic1976 Over a year ago

In the following code:

def create_instance(compute, project, zone, name, bucket):     image_response = compute.images().getFromFamily(         project='debian-cloud', family='debian-9').execute()     source_disk_image = image_response['selfLink']

it's not clear what type of object compute is.

DazWilkin Over a year ago

It's a service object. See github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/blob/master/docs/…

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