Step-by-step guides for Compute Cloud
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Updated at October 29, 2025
- Creating a VM
- DSVM
- Placement groups
- Images with pre-installed software
- Getting VM info
- Managing a VM
- Working with VM metadata
- Using a VM
- Managing the password reset agent
- Creating a disk
- Managing a disk
- Disk snapshots
- Disk placement groups
- Creating an image
- Managing an image
- File storages
- Managing a serial console
- Creating an instance group
- Getting instance group info
- Managing an instance group
- Dedicated hosts
- Reserved instance pools
- GPU clusters
- Getting additional information
Creating a VM
- Creating a VM from a public Linux image
- Creating a VM from disks
- Creating a VM with disks recovered from snapshots
- Creating a VM from a custom image
- Creating a VM with a custom configuration script
- Creating a VM with metadata from environment variables
- Creating a VM with access to a Yandex Lockbox secret
- Creating a VM with a GPU
- Making a VM preemptible
DSVM
Placement groups
- Creating a placement group
- Deleting a placement group
- Creating a VM in a placement group
- Creating an instance group in a placement group
- Adding a VM to a placement group
- Removing a VM from a placement group
- Getting placement group info
- Removing an instance group from a placement group
- Configuring VM placement group access permissions
Images with pre-installed software
- Creating a VM from a public image
- Software setup
- Working with a VM created from a public image
- Getting a list of public images
- Getting public image info
Getting VM info
Managing a VM
- Stopping, starting, or restarting a VM
- Resetting a user password on a Windows Server VM
- Attaching a disk to a VM
- Detaching a disk from a VM
- Moving a VM to a different availability zone
- Moving a VM to a different folder
- Moving a VM to a different cloud
- Adding another network interface to a virtual machine
- Deleting a network interface from a VM
- Assigning a public IP address to a VM
- Reassigning a public IP address from one VM to another
- Unassigning a public IP address from a VM
- Making a VM public IP address static
- Updating a VM
- Changing VM computing resources
- Changing security groups of a VM network interface
- Linking the service account to your VM
- Configuring VM access permissions
- Deleting a VM
Working with VM metadata
- Configuring parameters of the VM metadata service
- Getting VM metadata
- Getting a VM instance identity document
- Changing VM metadata
- Creating a VM with a custom configuration script
- Creating a VM with metadata from environment variables
- Creating a VM with access to a Yandex Lockbox secret
Using a VM
- Connecting to a Linux VM over SSH
- Connecting to a Linux VM over SSH using Yandex Cloud Shell
- Connecting to a Windows VM via RDP
- Connecting to a Windows VM via PowerShell
- Creating a VM with OS Login
- Configuring OS Login access on an existing VM
- Exporting an SSH certificate
- Connecting to a VM via OS Login
- Using Yandex Cloud from within a VM
- Installing NVIDIA drivers
- Recovering access to a VM
Managing the password reset agent
- Checking password reset agent operation on a Windows Server VM
- Installing the password reset agent on a Windows Server VM
- Resetting a Windows Server admin password
- Deleting the password reset agent from a Windows Server VM
Creating a disk
- Creating an empty disk
- Creating an empty disk with a large block
- Creating a non-replicated disk
- Creating an ultra high-speed network storage with three replicas (SSD)
- Recovering a disk from a snapshot
- Recovering a disk from an image
Managing a disk
- Updating a disk
- Configuring disk snapshot schedules
- Moving a disk to a different folder
- Moving a disk to a different availability zone
- Encrypting a disk
- Getting disk info
- Configuring disk access permissions
- Deleting a disk
Disk snapshots
- Creating a disk snapshot
- Getting disk snapshot info
- Deleting a disk snapshot
- Creating a disk snapshot schedule
- Getting disk snapshot schedule info
- Updating a disk snapshot schedule
- Disabling and enabling a disk snapshot schedule
- Encrypting an image
- Configuring disk snapshot access permissions
- Configuring snapshot schedule access permissions
- Deleting a disk snapshot schedule
Disk placement groups
- Creating a disk placement group
- Adding a disk to a placement group
- Getting disk placement group info
- Configuring access permissions for a non-replicated disk placement group
- Removing a disk from a placement group
Creating an image
- Setting up a custom disk image
- Uploading a custom disk image to Yandex Cloud
- Creating an image from a disk
- Creating an image from a disk snapshot
- Creating an image from another custom image
Managing an image
- Getting a list of disk images
- Getting information about a disk image
- Importing an image from a different cloud or folder
- Encrypting an image
- Configuring image access permissions
- Deleting a disk image
File storages
- Creating a file storage
- Attaching a file storage to a VM
- Detaching a file storage from a VM
- Updating a file storage
- Getting file storage info
- Configuring file storage access permissions
- Deleting a file storage
Managing a serial console
- Getting started with a serial console
- Connecting to a VM serial console over SSH
- Connecting to a VM serial console using the CLI
- Starting the command shell in the Windows SAC
- Disabling access to a serial console
Creating an instance group
- Creating a fixed-size instance group
- Creating a fixed-size instance group with a network load balancer
- Creating a fixed-size instance group with an L7 load balancer
- Creating an autoscaling instance group
- Creating an instance group from a Container Optimized Image in Compute Cloud
- Creating an instance group based on a YAML specification
- Creating an instance group in a placement group
- Creating a group of instances with fixed IP addresses
- Creating an instance group connected to a file storage
- Creating an instance group connected to Yandex Object Storage
Getting instance group info
- Getting a list of instance groups
- Getting information about an instance group
- Getting a list of VM instances in a group
Managing an instance group
- Updating an instance group
- Updating an instance group based on a YAML specification
- Moving an instance group to a different availability zone
- Moving an instance group with a network load balancer to a different availability zone
- Moving an instance group with an L7 load balancer to a different availability zone
- Configuring application health checks on a VM instance
- Rolling updates
- Zero-downtime updates
- Pausing instance group processes
- Resuming instance group processes
- Sequentially restarting instances in a group
- Sequentially recreating instances in a group
- Stopping an instance group
- Starting an instance group
- Configuring instance group access permissions
- Deleting an instance group
- Removing an instance group from a placement group
Dedicated hosts
- Creating a group of dedicated hosts
- Creating a VM in a group of dedicated hosts
- Creating a VM on a dedicated host
- Configuring access permissions for a dedicated host group
Reserved instance pools
- Creating a reserved instance pool
- Updating a reserved instance pool
- Deleting a reserved instance pool
- Managing VMs in a reserved instance pool
GPU clusters
- Creating a GPU cluster
- Adding a VM to a GPU cluster
- Updating a GPU cluster
- Deleting a GPU cluster
- Getting GPU cluster info
- Configuring GPU cluster access permissions
- Testing a GPU cluster physical state
- Running parallel tasks in a GPU cluster
- Testing InfiniBand throughput