Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

Launching VM instances

We will launch two VM instances on both us-central1 and us-east1 by using the following configuration:

VM Instance name	Target VPC	zone (see the following steps)	Target Subnet	Assign Network Tag
chap7-public	chap7	us-central1-a	chap7-us-central1	public
chap7-private	chap7	us-east1-b	chap7-us-east1	private

1. Check the available zones in us-central1 and us-east1 by using the following command:

$ gcloud compute zones list --filter='name:(us-east1,us-central1)'NAME           REGION       STATUS  NEXT_MAINTENANCE  TURNDOWN_DATEus-east1-b     us-east1     UPus-east1-c     us-east1     UPus-east1-d     us-east1     UPus-central1-c  us-central1  UPus-central1-a  us-central1  UPus-central1-f  us-central1  UPus-central1-b us-central1 ...