R: Launch a container-VM image

gce_vm_container {googleComputeEngineR}

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Launch a container-VM image

Description

This lets you specify docker images when creating the VM. These are a special class of Google instances that are setup for running Docker containers.

Usage

gce_vm_container(file = NULL, cloud_init = NULL, shell_script = NULL,
  image_family = "cos-stable", image_project = "cos-cloud", ...)

Arguments

`file`	file location of a valid cloud-init or shell_script file. One of `file` or `cloud_init` or `shell_script` must be supplied
`cloud_init`	contents of a cloud-init file, for example read via `readChar(file, nchars = 32768)`
`shell_script`	contents of a shell_script file, for example read via `readChar(file, nchars = 32768)`
`image_family`	An image-family. It must come from the `image_project` family.
`image_project`	An image-project, where the image-family resides.
`...`	Other arguments passed to gce_vm_create

Details

file expects a filepath to a https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/format.html configuration file or a valid bash script e.g. has !#/bin/ or #cloud-config at top of file.

image_project will be ignored if set, overriden to cos-cloud. If you want to set it then use the gce_vm_create function directly that this function wraps with some defaults.

Value