Google Compute Engine VM module

This module can operate in two distinct modes:

instance creation, with optional unmanaged group
instance template creation

In both modes, an optional service account can be created and assigned to either instances or template. If you need a managed instance group when using the module in template mode, refer to the compute-mig module.

Examples

Instance using defaults
Service account management
Disk management
- Disk sources
- Disk types and options
Network interfaces
Metadata
IAM
Spot VM
Confidential compute
Disk encryption with Cloud KMS
Instance template
Instance group

Instance using defaults

The simplest example leverages defaults for the boot disk image and size, and uses a service account created by the module. Multiple instances can be managed via the instance_count variable.

module "simple-vm-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  service_account_create = true
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2 inventory=simple.yaml

Service account management

VM service accounts can be managed in three different ways:

You can let the module create a service account for you by settting service_account_create = true
You can use an existing service account by setting service_account_create = false (the default value) and passing the full email address of the service account to the service_account variable. This is useful, for example, if you want to reuse the service account from another previously created instance, or if you want to create the service account manually with the iam-service-account module. In this case, you probably also want to set service_account_scopes to cloud-platform.
Lastly, you can use the default compute service account by setting service_account_crate = false. Please note that using the default compute service account is not recommended.

module "vm-managed-sa-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test1"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  service_account_create = true
}

module "vm-managed-sa-example2" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test2"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  service_account        = module.vm-managed-sa-example.service_account_email
  service_account_scopes = ["cloud-platform"]
}

# not recommended
module "vm-default-sa-example2" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test3"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  service_account_create = false
}

# tftest modules=3 resources=4 inventory=sas.yaml

Disk management

Disk sources

Attached disks can be created and optionally initialized from a pre-existing source, or attached to VMs when pre-existing. The source and source_type attributes of the attached_disks variable allows several modes of operation:

source_type = "image" can be used with zonal disks in instances and templates, set source to the image name or self link
source_type = "snapshot" can be used with instances only, set source to the snapshot name or self link
source_type = "attach" can be used for both instances and templates to attach an existing disk, set source to the name (for zonal disks) or self link (for regional disks) of the existing disk to attach; no disk will be created
source_type = null can be used where an empty disk is needed, source becomes irrelevant and can be left null

This is an example of attaching a pre-existing regional PD to a new instance:

module "vm-disks-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "${var.region}-b"
  name       = "test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  attached_disks = [{
    name        = "repd-1"
    size        = 10
    source_type = "attach"
    source      = "regions/${var.region}/disks/repd-test-1"
    options = {
      replica_zone = "${var.region}-c"
    }
  }]
  service_account_create = true
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2

And the same example for an instance template (where not using the full self link of the disk triggers recreation of the template)

module "vm-disks-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "${var.region}-b"
  name       = "test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  attached_disks = [{
    name        = "repd"
    size        = 10
    source_type = "attach"
    source      = "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/${var.project_id}/regions/${var.region}/disks/repd-test-1"
    options = {
      replica_zone = "${var.region}-c"
    }
  }]
  service_account_create = true
  create_template        = true
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2

Disk types and options

The attached_disks variable exposes an option attribute that can be used to fine tune the configuration of each disk. The following example shows a VM with multiple disks

module "vm-disk-options-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  attached_disks = [
    {
      name        = "data1"
      size        = "10"
      source_type = "image"
      source      = "image-1"
      options = {
        auto_delete  = false
        replica_zone = "europe-west1-c"
      }
    },
    {
      name        = "data2"
      size        = "20"
      source_type = "snapshot"
      source      = "snapshot-2"
      options = {
        type = "pd-ssd"
        mode = "READ_ONLY"
      }
    }
  ]
  service_account_create = true
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=4 inventory=disk-options.yaml

Network interfaces

Internal and external IPs

By default VNs are create with an automatically assigned IP addresses, but you can change it through the addreses and nat attributes of the network_interfaces variable:

module "vm-internal-ip" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = "my-project"
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "vm-internal-ip"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
    addresses  = { external = null, internal = "10.0.0.2" }
  }]
}

module "vm-external-ip" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = "my-project"
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "vm-external-ip"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
    nat        = true
    addresses  = { external = "8.8.8.8", internal = null }
  }]
}
# tftest modules=2 resources=2 inventory=ips.yaml

Using Alias IPs

This example shows how to add additional Alias IPs to your VM.

module "vm-with-alias-ips" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = "my-project"
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
    alias_ips = {
      alias1 = "10.16.0.10/32"
    }
  }]
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=alias-ips.yaml

Using gVNIC

This example shows how to enable gVNIC on your VM by customizing a cos image. Given that gVNIC needs to be enabled as an instance configuration and as a guest os configuration, you'll need to supply a bootable disk with guest_os_features=GVNIC. SEV_CAPABLE, UEFI_COMPATIBLE and VIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE are enabled implicitly in the cos, rhel, centos and other images.

resource "google_compute_image" "cos-gvnic" {
  project      = "my-project"
  name         = "my-image"
  source_image = "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/cos-cloud/global/images/cos-89-16108-534-18"

  guest_os_features {
    type = "GVNIC"
  }
  guest_os_features {
    type = "SEV_CAPABLE"
  }
  guest_os_features {
    type = "UEFI_COMPATIBLE"
  }
  guest_os_features {
    type = "VIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE"
  }
}

module "vm-with-gvnic" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = "my-project"
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test"
  boot_disk = {
    initialize_params = {
      image = google_compute_image.cos-gvnic.self_link
      type  = "pd-ssd"
    }
  }
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
    nic_type   = "GVNIC"
  }]
  service_account_create = true
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=3 inventory=gvnic.yaml

Metadata

You can define labels and custom metadata values. Metadata can be leveraged, for example, to define a custom startup script.

module "vm-metadata-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "nginx-server"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  labels = {
    env    = "dev"
    system = "crm"
  }
  metadata = {
    startup-script = <<-EOF
      #! /bin/bash
      apt-get update
      apt-get install -y nginx
    EOF
  }
  service_account_create = true
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2 inventory=metadata.yaml

IAM

Like most modules, you can assign IAM roles to the instance using the iam variable.

module "vm-iam-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "webserver"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  iam = {
    "roles/compute.instanceAdmin" = [
      "group:webserver@example.com",
      "group:admin@example.com"
    ]
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2 inventory=iam.yaml

Spot VM

Spot VMs are ephemeral compute instances suitable for batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads. Spot VMs provide new features that preemptible instances do not support, such as the absence of a maximum runtime.

module "spot-vm-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test"
  options = {
    spot               = true
    termination_action = "STOP"
  }
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=spot.yaml

Confidential compute

You can enable confidential compute with the confidential_compute variable, which can be used for standalone instances or for instance templates.

module "vm-confidential-example" {
  source               = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id           = var.project_id
  zone                 = "europe-west1-b"
  name                 = "confidential-vm"
  confidential_compute = true
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]

}

module "template-confidential-example" {
  source               = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id           = var.project_id
  zone                 = "europe-west1-b"
  name                 = "confidential-template"
  confidential_compute = true
  create_template      = true
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
}

# tftest modules=2 resources=2 inventory=confidential.yaml

Disk encryption with Cloud KMS

This example shows how to control disk encryption via the the encryption variable, in this case the self link to a KMS CryptoKey that will be used to encrypt boot and attached disk. Managing the key with the ../kms module is of course possible, but is not shown here.

module "kms-vm-example" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = var.project_id
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "kms-test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  attached_disks = [{
    name = "attached-disk"
    size = 10
  }]
  service_account_create = true
  encryption = {
    encrypt_boot      = true
    kms_key_self_link = var.kms_key.self_link
  }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=3 inventory=cmek.yaml

Instance template

This example shows how to use the module to manage an instance template that defines an additional attached disk for each instance, and overrides defaults for the boot disk image and service account.

module "cos-test" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = "my-project"
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  boot_disk = {
    initialize_params = {
      image = "projects/cos-cloud/global/images/family/cos-stable"
    }
  }
  attached_disks = [
    {
      name = "disk-1"
      size = 10
    }
  ]
  service_account = "vm-default@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
  create_template = true
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=template.yaml

Instance group

If an instance group is needed when operating in instance mode, simply set the group variable to a non null map. The map can contain named port declarations, or be empty if named ports are not needed.

locals {
  cloud_config = "my cloud config"
}

module "instance-group" {
  source     = "./fabric/modules/compute-vm"
  project_id = "my-project"
  zone       = "europe-west1-b"
  name       = "ilb-test"
  network_interfaces = [{
    network    = var.vpc.self_link
    subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
  }]
  boot_disk = {
    image = "projects/cos-cloud/global/images/family/cos-stable"
  }
  service_account        = var.service_account.email
  service_account_scopes = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"]
  metadata = {
    user-data = local.cloud_config
  }
  group = { named_ports = {} }
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2 inventory=group.yaml

Variables

name	description	type	required	default
name	Instance name.	`string`	✓
network_interfaces	Network interfaces configuration. Use self links for Shared VPC, set addresses to null if not needed.	`list(object({…}))`	✓
project_id	Project id.	`string`	✓
zone	Compute zone.	`string`	✓
attached_disk_defaults	Defaults for attached disks options.	`object({…})`		`{…}`
attached_disks	Additional disks, if options is null defaults will be used in its place. Source type is one of 'image' (zonal disks in vms and template), 'snapshot' (vm), 'existing', and null.	`list(object({…}))`		`[]`
boot_disk	Boot disk properties.	`object({…})`		`{…}`
can_ip_forward	Enable IP forwarding.	`bool`		`false`
confidential_compute	Enable Confidential Compute for these instances.	`bool`		`false`
create_template	Create instance template instead of instances.	`bool`		`false`
description	Description of a Compute Instance.	`string`		`"Managed by the compute-vm Terraform module."`
enable_display	Enable virtual display on the instances.	`bool`		`false`
encryption	Encryption options. Only one of kms_key_self_link and disk_encryption_key_raw may be set. If needed, you can specify to encrypt or not the boot disk.	`object({…})`		`null`
group	Define this variable to create an instance group for instances. Disabled for template use.	`object({…})`		`null`
hostname	Instance FQDN name.	`string`		`null`
iam	IAM bindings in {ROLE => [MEMBERS]} format.	`map(list(string))`		`{}`
instance_type	Instance type.	`string`		`"f1-micro"`
labels	Instance labels.	`map(string)`		`{}`
metadata	Instance metadata.	`map(string)`		`{}`
min_cpu_platform	Minimum CPU platform.	`string`		`null`
options	Instance options.	`object({…})`		`{…}`
scratch_disks	Scratch disks configuration.	`object({…})`		`{…}`
service_account	Service account email. Unused if service account is auto-created.	`string`		`null`
service_account_create	Auto-create service account.	`bool`		`false`
service_account_scopes	Scopes applied to service account.	`list(string)`		`[]`
shielded_config	Shielded VM configuration of the instances.	`object({…})`		`null`
tag_bindings	Tag bindings for this instance, in key => tag value id format.	`map(string)`		`null`
tags	Instance network tags for firewall rule targets.	`list(string)`		`[]`

Outputs

name	description	sensitive
external_ip	Instance main interface external IP addresses.
group	Instance group resource.
instance	Instance resource.
internal_ip	Instance main interface internal IP address.
internal_ips	Instance interfaces internal IP addresses.
self_link	Instance self links.
service_account	Service account resource.
service_account_email	Service account email.
service_account_iam_email	Service account email.
template	Template resource.
template_name	Template name.

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Google Compute Engine VM module

Examples

Instance using defaults

Service account management

Disk management

Disk sources

Disk types and options

Network interfaces

Internal and external IPs

Using Alias IPs

Using gVNIC

Metadata

IAM

Spot VM

Confidential compute

Disk encryption with Cloud KMS

Instance template

Instance group

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Google Compute Engine VM module

Examples

Instance using defaults

Service account management

Disk management

Disk sources

Disk types and options

Network interfaces

Internal and external IPs

Using Alias IPs

Using gVNIC

Metadata

IAM

Spot VM

Confidential compute

Disk encryption with Cloud KMS

Instance template

Instance group

Variables

Outputs

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