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Creating MIGs

With our instance template created, we can proceed to creating our first managed instance group, hello-migs. At a minimum, we simply specify the desired instance template and the number of instances to create. Let's create a small MIG with three instances by executing the following command from chapter_07/example_01/02-create-managed-instance-group.sh:

gcloud compute instance-groups managed create hello-migs \    --template hello-migs-template-v1 \    --size 3 \    --region us-east1

Once executed, we can view our new MIG in the Cloud Console at Navigation menu | Compute Engine | Instance groups. Click on hello-migs to view information about the new group. You'll see that there are three instances running, each with a new external IP: ...