Skip to Content
Google Cloud Platform for Developers
book

Google Cloud Platform for Developers

by Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Restart behavior

Similar to maintenance behavior, restart behavior defines how a VM should handle any event that causes it to shut down. The default behavior is to automatically restart. This can be disabled to allow the VM to remain stopped in such an event.

A VM's availability policy can be set during or after creation using the following commands:

Disable live migration during creation

gcloud compute instances create … --maintenance-policy TERMINATE

Disable automatic restart during creation

gcloud compute instances create … --no-restart-on-failure

Modify migration once running

gcloud compute set-scheduling <INSTANCE> --maintenance-policy <MIGRATE | TERMINATE >

Modify automatic restart once running

gcloud compute ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Google Cloud Platform in Action

Google Cloud Platform in Action

John J. (JJ) Geewax
Google Cloud Platform for Architects

Google Cloud Platform for Architects

Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn Ravi, Judy Raj

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788837675Supplemental Content