yc compute instance create

Flag

Description

--name

string

A name of the instance.

--description

string

Specifies a textual description of the instance.

--labels

key=value[,key=value...]

A list of label KEY=VALUE pairs to add. For example, to add two labels named 'foo' and 'bar', both with the value 'baz', use '--labels foo=baz,bar=baz'.

--zone

string

The zone of the instance to create.

--metadata

key=value[,key=value...]

Metadata to be made available to the guest operating system running on the instance.
See for details https://yandex.cloud/ru/docs/compute/concepts/vm-metadata

--metadata-options

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Options set the access mode to instance's metadata.

Possible property names:

• aws-v1-http-endpoint: Enables access to AWS flavored metadata (IMDSv1). Values: enabled, disabled

• aws-v1-http-token: Enables access to IAM credentials with AWS flavored metadata (IMDSv1). Values: enabled, disabled

• gce-http-endpoint: Enables access to GCE flavored metadata. Values: enabled, disabled

• gce-http-token: Enables access to IAM credentials with GCE flavored metadata. Values: enabled, disabled

--metadata-from-file

key=value[,key=value...]

Same as --metadata except that the value for the entry will be read from a local file.

--ssh-key

string

Creates user 'yc-user' and adds SSH key from specified file to authorized keys using cloud-config.
If your need more flexibility, use cloud-config passed in 'user-data' metadata key.

--public-ip

If true, one-to-one NAT public IP will be created for the default network interface. Cannot be passed together with --network-interface

--public-address

string

If set, one-to-one NAT public IP will be created for the default network interface with the specified value. Cannot be passed together with --network-interface

--create-disk

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Creates and attaches persistent disks to the instance.

Possible property names:

• name: Specifies the name of the disk.

• type: The type of the disk. To get a list of available disk types, run 'yc compute disk-type list'. The default disk type is network-hdd.

• size: The size of the disk in GB. You can also use M and T suffixes to specify smaller or greater size respectively. If not specified, inferred size is used. If the disk is created from a snapshot, disk size of the snapshot is used. If the disk is created from an image, size of the image is used.If no source is specified, default disk size is used.

• block-size: Specifies the block size of the disk in bytes. You can also use K and M suffixes.

• snapshot-name: A source snapshot used to create the disk.

• snapshot-id: An ID of the source snapshot used to create the disk.

• image-name: A source image used to create the disk.

• image-id: An ID of the source image used to create the disk.

• image-family: An image family that is used to create the disk.

• image-folder-id: The folder ID that is used to resolve references for image-name or image-family.

• disk-placement-group-id: An ID of the placement group to create the disk in

• disk-placement-group-name: A placement group to create the disk in

• disk-placement-group-partition: A placement group partition to create the disk in. Used when a placement group is created with the partition strategy.

• kms-key-name: KMS key used to encrypt the disk.

• kms-key-id: An ID of the KMS key used to encrypt the disk.

• device-name: Specifies a unique serial number of your choice that is reflected into the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree of a Linux operating system running within the instance.

• auto-delete: Specifies if this persistent disk will be automatically deleted when the instance is deleted.

--attach-disk

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Attaches persistent disks to the instances. The specified disks must already exist.

Possible property names:

• disk-name: The disk to attach to the instance.

• disk-id: An ID of the disk to attach to the instance.

• device-name: Specifies a unique serial number of your choice that is reflected into the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree of a Linux operating system running within the instance.

• auto-delete: Specifies if this persistent disk will be automatically deleted when the instance is deleted.

--create-boot-disk

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Creates a new disk and uses it as a boot disk of the instance.

Possible property names:

• name: Specifies the name of the disk.

• type: The type of the disk. To get a list of available disk types, run 'yc compute disk-type list'. The default disk type is network-hdd.

• size: The size of the disk in GB. You can also use M and T suffixes to specify smaller or greater size respectively. If not specified, inferred size is used. If the disk is created from a snapshot, disk size of the snapshot is used. If the disk is created from an image, size of the image is used.If no source is specified, default disk size is used.

• block-size: Specifies the block size of the disk in bytes. You can also use K and M suffixes.

• snapshot-name: A source snapshot used to create the disk.

• snapshot-id: An ID of the source snapshot used to create the disk.

• image-name: A source image used to create the disk.

• image-id: An ID of the source image used to create the disk.

• image-family: An image family that is used to create the disk.

• image-folder-id: The folder ID that is used to resolve references for image-name or image-family.

• disk-placement-group-id: An ID of the placement group to create the disk in

• disk-placement-group-name: A placement group to create the disk in

• disk-placement-group-partition: A placement group partition to create the disk in. Used when a placement group is created with the partition strategy.

• kms-key-name: KMS key used to encrypt the disk.

• kms-key-id: An ID of the KMS key used to encrypt the disk.

• device-name: Specifies a unique serial number of your choice that is reflected into the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree of a Linux operating system running within the instance.

• auto-delete: Specifies if this persistent disk will be automatically deleted when the instance is deleted.

--use-boot-disk

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Uses an already existing disk as a boot disk of the instance.

Possible property names:

• disk-name: The disk to attach to the instance.

• disk-id: An ID of the disk to attach to the instance.

• device-name: Specifies a unique serial number of your choice that is reflected into the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree of a Linux operating system running within the instance.

• auto-delete: Specifies if this persistent disk will be automatically deleted when the instance is deleted.

--attach-filesystem

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Attaches filesystems to the instances. The specified filesystems must already exist.

Possible property names:

• device-name: This value can be used to reference the device for mounting, resizing, and so on, from within the instance.

• filesystem-name: The filesystem to attach to the instance.

• filesystem-id: An ID of the filesystem to attach to the instance.

--attach-local-disk

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Attaches local disks to the instances.

Possible property names:

• size: The size of the local disk in bytes. You can also use M and T suffixes to specify MiB or TiB respectively.

--network-settings

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Network settings for the instance.

Possible property names:

• type: Type of a network for virtual machine instance. Values: standard, software-accelerated

--network-interface

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Adds a network interface to the instance.

Possible property names:

• subnet-name: Specifies the subnet that the interface will be part of.

• subnet-id: Specifies the ID of the subnet that the interface will be part of.

• address: Assigns the given internal address to the instance that is created. If no address is specified, some unassigned address from the subnet is used.

• ipv4-address: Assigns the given internal IPv4 address to the instance that is created. If 'auto' used as value, some unassigned address from the subnet is used.

• nat-ip-version: Specifies IP version for One-to-One NAT. Can be 'ipv4'. This flag can be applied to network interfaces with ipv4 address.

• nat-address: Specifies public IP address for One-to-One NAT. This flag can be applied to network interfaces with ipv4 address.

• security-group-ids: Security groups for the network interface, security-group-ids=[id1,id2],security-group-ids=id3

• dns-record-spec: DNS records in format {name=<name>[,ttl=<ttl>][,dns-zone-id=<id>][,ptr={true|false}]}

--serial-port-settings

PROPERTY=VALUE[,PROPERTY=VALUE...]

Serial port settings for the instance.

Possible property names:

• ssh-authorization: Authorization mode in interactive serial port console via SSH. Values: instance_metadata, os_login

--memory

byteSize

Specifies how much memory instance should have in GB. You can also use M and T suffixes to specify smaller or greater size respectively.

--cores

int

Specifies how many CPU cores instance should have.

--core-fraction

int

If provided, specifies baseline performance for a core in percent.

--gpus

int

Specifies how many GPUs instance should have.

--platform

string

Specifies platform for the instance.

--hostname

string

Creates instance with specified hostname.

--preemptible

Creates preemptible instance.

--maintenance-policy

string

Behaviour on maintenance events. Values: 'restart', 'migrate'

--maintenance-grace-period

duration

Time between notification via metadata service and maintenance.

--placement-group-id

string

Placement group to create the instance in.

--placement-group-name

string

Placement group to create the instance in.

--placement-group-partition

int

Specifies placement group partition for the instance.

--host-group-id

string

Host group to create the instance in.

--host-group-name

string

Host group to create the instance in.

--host-id

string

Host to create the instance in.

--gpu-cluster-id

string

GPU cluster to create the instance in.

--gpu-cluster-name

string

GPU cluster to create the instance in.

--service-account-id

string

Service account, which token can be obtained inside VM from metadata service.

--service-account-name

string

Service account, which token can be obtained inside VM from metadata service.

--reserved-instance-pool-id

string

Reserved instance pool to create the instance in.

--reserved-instance-pool-name

string

Reserved instance pool to create the instance in.

--image-folder-id

string

The folder ID against which all image and image family references will be resolved.

--async

Display information about the operation in progress, without waiting for the operation to complete.

Flag

Description

--profile

string

Set the custom configuration file.

--debug

Debug logging.

--debug-grpc

Debug gRPC logging. Very verbose, used for debugging connection problems.

--no-user-output

Disable printing user intended output to stderr.

--retry

int

Enable gRPC retries. By default, retries are enabled with maximum 5 attempts.
Pass 0 to disable retries. Pass any negative value for infinite retries.
Even infinite retries are capped with 2 minutes timeout.

--cloud-id

string

Set the ID of the cloud to use.

--folder-id

string

Set the ID of the folder to use.

--folder-name

string

Set the name of the folder to use (will be resolved to id).

--endpoint

string

Set the Cloud API endpoint (host:port).

--token

string

Set the OAuth token to use.

--impersonate-service-account-id

string

Set the ID of the service account to impersonate.

--no-browser

Disable opening browser for authentication.

--format

string

Set the output format: text (default), yaml, json, json-rest.

--jq

string

Query to select values from the response using jq syntax

-h, --help

Display help for the command.