8 Compute Instance Deployment

This chapter describes how to create (launch), update, and delete (terminate) a compute instance, and how to stop, start, or reset an instance.

This chapter also describes how to create and use an instance configuration. With an instance configuration, you can create a single instance or pool of instances quickly. You can create an instance configuration from an existing instance to replicate that instance more quickly.

You can attach instances to a pool or detach instances from a pool manually, or you can configure autoscaling to automatically grow or shrink the pool on a predefined schedule.

Finally this chapter describes how to connect to a compute instance and how to back up an instance and restore the instance from backup.