Creates a persistent disk in the specified project using the data in the request.

You can create a disk with a sourceImage, a sourceSnapshot, or create an empty 500 GB data disk by omitting all properties.

gce_make_disk(name, sourceImage = NULL, sizeGb = NULL,
  description = NULL, diskEncryptionKey = NULL, licenses = NULL,
  sourceSnapshot = NULL, sourceImageEncryptionKey = NULL,
  sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey = NULL, type = NULL,
  project = gce_get_global_project(), zone = gce_get_global_zone())

Arguments

name	Name of the resource
sourceImage	The source image used to create this disk
sizeGb	Size of the persistent disk, specified in GB
description	An optional description of this resource
diskEncryptionKey	Encrypts the disk using a customer-supplied encryption key
licenses	Any applicable publicly visible licenses
sourceSnapshot	The source snapshot used to create this disk
sourceImageEncryptionKey	The customer-supplied encryption key of the source image
sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey	The customer-supplied encryption key of the source snapshot
type	URL of the disk type resource describing which disk type to use to create the disk
project	Project ID for this request
zone	The name of the zone for this request

Value

a zone operation

Details

You can also create a disk that is larger than the default size by specifying the sizeGb property.

Authentication scopes used by this function are:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute

See also

Google Documentation