gce_make_disk function

Creates a persistent disk in the specified project using the data in the request.

You can create a disk with a sourceImage, a sourceSnapshot, or create an empty 500 GB data disk by omitting all properties.

gce_make_disk(name, sourceImage = NULL, sizeGb = NULL,
  description = NULL, diskEncryptionKey = NULL, licenses = NULL,
  sourceSnapshot = NULL, sourceImageEncryptionKey = NULL,
  sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey = NULL, type = NULL,
  project = gce_get_global_project(), zone = gce_get_global_zone())

Arguments

• name: Name of the resource
• sourceImage: The source image used to create this disk
• sizeGb: Size of the persistent disk, specified in GB
• description: An optional description of this resource
• diskEncryptionKey: Encrypts the disk using a customer-supplied encryption key
• licenses: Any applicable publicly visible licenses
• sourceSnapshot: The source snapshot used to create this disk
• sourceImageEncryptionKey: The customer-supplied encryption key of the source image
• sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey: The customer-supplied encryption key of the source snapshot
• type: URL of the disk type resource describing which disk type to use to create the disk
• project: Project ID for this request
• zone: The name of the zone for this request

Returns

a zone operation

Details

You can also create a disk that is larger than the default size by specifying the sizeGb property.

Authentication scopes used by this function are:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute

See Also

Google Documentation