Compute Engine

gcpVirtual machinegoogle-compute-engine

Virtual machine instance you boot from an image in a single zone.

Provider
gcp
Category
Compute
Also known as
GCE, Spot VM, Confidential VM
Properties · 3 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
attestation · component propertyboolean—no—inherited
confidentialAccelerator · component propertyboolean—no—inherited
confidentialComputingTechnology · component propertyenumamd-sev | amd-sev-snp | intel-tdxno—inherited
coveredBySla · component propertyboolean—no—inherited
diskEncryptionboolean—no—▸ true
instancesinteger—no—inherited
machineFamily · component propertyenumgeneral-purpose | compute-optimized | memory-optimized | storage-optimized | accelerator-optimizednogeneral-purposeinherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ false
memoryEncryption · component propertyboolean—no—inherited
memoryGibinteger—no—inherited
onHostMaintenance · component propertyenummigrate | terminatenomigrateinherited
osenumlinux | windows | aix | ibm-inolinuxinherited
preemptionNoticeSeconds · component propertyinteger—no—inherited
provisioningModel · component propertyenumstandard | spotnostandardinherited
publicIpboolean—no—inherited
securityType · component propertyenumstandard | shielded | confidentialnoshieldedinherited
sizeVcpuinteger—no—inherited
terminationAction · component propertyenumstop | deleteno—inherited
zoneRedundantboolean—no—▸ false
Rules that apply · 1

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

stateful-node-without-zone-redundancy

A stateful compute node pinned to exactly one availability zone disappears with that zone, and its state goes with it. Nodes inside a cell are exempt, because there the cell is deliberately single-zone and redundancy comes from the other cells.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node's `stateless` is false
  • — the node sits inside exactly 1 availability-zone group
  • — this does not hold:
  • — the node sits inside at least one cell group
Use it in a design
nodes:
  - { id: "compute-engine", component: "google-compute-engine" }
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Source
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# Compute Engine VM instance: a machine you boot from an image and keep patching yourself
# ("Compute Engine instances" — you specify the zone, operating system and machine type, so an
# instance lives in one zone). Persistent disks are encrypted at rest with Google-owned and
# Google-managed keys without any action ("Protect resources by using Cloud KMS keys").
#
# Spot and Confidential VMs are this component, not separate ones.
#
# provisioningModel: "spot" is a Spot VM, which Compute Engine may preempt at any time ("Spot VMs",
# https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/spot). provisioningModel already carried "spot",
# so it is the capacity switch here rather than a second property. terminationAction,
# preemptionNoticeSeconds and coveredBySla mean something only when provisioningModel is "spot",
# so none is defaulted. Google's own defaults for a Spot VM: stop on preemption, 0 seconds'
# notice, excluded from the Compute Engine SLA. A Spot VM cannot live migrate; that is
# onHostMaintenance: "terminate", so no separate live-migration flag is carried.
#
# securityType: "confidential" is a Confidential VM, memory encrypted in use by the hardware
# ("Confidential VM overview",
# https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing/confidential-vm/docs/confidential-vm-overview).
# The technology follows the machine type and CPU platform (AMD SEV, AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX).
# confidentialComputingTechnology, memoryEncryption, attestation and confidentialAccelerator mean
# something only when securityType is "confidential", so none is defaulted. "shielded" is Shielded
# VM (Secure Boot, vTPM, integrity monitoring), which Compute Engine turns on for supported public
# images ("Shielded VM", https://cloud.google.com/compute/shielded-vm/docs/shielded-vm).
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "google-compute-engine"
kind: "virtual-machine"
provider: "gcp"
docs: "https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances"
aliases: ["GCE", "Spot VM", "Confidential VM"]
defaults:
  managed: false
  diskEncryption: true
  zoneRedundant: false
properties:
  provisioningModel:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["standard", "spot"]
    default: "standard"
  securityType:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["standard", "shielded", "confidential"]
    default: "shielded"
  machineFamily:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["general-purpose", "compute-optimized", "memory-optimized", "storage-optimized", "accelerator-optimized"]
    default: "general-purpose"
  onHostMaintenance:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["migrate", "terminate"]
    default: "migrate"
  terminationAction:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["stop", "delete"]
  preemptionNoticeSeconds:
    type: "integer"
  coveredBySla:
    type: "boolean"
  confidentialComputingTechnology:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["amd-sev", "amd-sev-snp", "intel-tdx"]
  memoryEncryption:
    type: "boolean"
  attestation:
    type: "boolean"
  confidentialAccelerator:
    type: "boolean"

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/google-compute-engine.md