Instance templates in GCP - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create an instance template with a specified machine type.

GCP

gcloud compute instance-templates create my-template --machine-type=[1]

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Azone

Bus-central1-a

Cmy-instance

Dn1-standard-1

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a zone name instead of a machine type.

Using an instance name instead of a machine type.

The --machine-type flag specifies the machine type for the instance template.

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medium

Complete the code to specify the boot disk image when creating an instance template.

GCP

gcloud compute instance-templates create my-template --image=[1]

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Adebian-11

Bn1-standard-1

Cus-central1-a

Dmy-instance

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a machine type instead of an image name.

Using a zone name instead of an image.

The --image flag sets the boot disk image for the instance template.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to create an instance template with a network tag.

GCP

gcloud compute instance-templates create my-template --tags=[1]

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Aweb-server

Bn1-standard-1

Cus-central1-a

Dmy-instance

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a zone or machine type as a tag.

Using an instance name instead of a tag.

The --tags flag assigns network tags to instances created from the template.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create an instance template with a specific machine type and network tag.

GCP

gcloud compute instance-templates create my-template --machine-type=[1] --tags=[2]

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An1-standard-2

Bweb-server

Cus-central1-a

Dmy-instance

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping machine type and tag values.

Using zone names instead of machine types or tags.

The --machine-type flag sets the machine type, and --tags assigns network tags.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create an instance template with a machine type, boot image, and network tag.

GCP

gcloud compute instance-templates create my-template --machine-type=[1] --image=[2] --tags=[3]

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Ae2-medium

Bubuntu-2004-lts

Cbackend

Dus-central1-a

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using zone names instead of machine types or images.

Mixing up the order of flags.

This command sets the machine type, boot image, and network tags for the instance template.