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Create minimal Compute Engine instance with Node.js
// Run `npm install @google-cloud/compute` first.
const Compute = require('@google-cloud/compute');
const compute = new Compute();
// Creates a new VM using the latest Ubuntu image.
(async () => {
try {
const zone = await compute.zone('us-central1-a');
const data = await zone.createVM(
'ubuntu-instance',
{ os: 'ubuntu' }
);
const operation = data[1];
await operation.promise();
// Virtual machine created.
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
}
})();
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fhinkel commented May 24, 2018

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