How to export a custom image to the cloud storage

Question

I have created a custom image that I wish to export to cloud storage. How should I go about doing the same?

Answer 1

The preferred way to export an image to Cloud Storage is to use the gcloud compute images export command. 

This command uses Daisy to chain together the multiple steps that are required to export an image. 

Using the gcloud command-line tool, run:

gcloud compute images export --destination-uri [DESTINATION_URI] \
    --image [IMAGE]

where:

• [DESTINATION_URI] is the Cloud Storage URI destination for the exported virtual disk file.

• [IMAGE] is the name of the disk image to export.

For example, the following command exports an image named my-image from my-project to a Cloud Storage bucket named my-bucket. By default, the image is exported as a disk.raw file and is compressed into the tar.gz file format.

gcloud compute images export --destination-uri gs://my-bucket/my-image.tar.gz \
    --image my-image --project my-project

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