GCP - Build image from source_image is actually a bootable disk?

[Lucky]

Hi

I was wondering, if there's equivalent in packer to create an image out of GCE's instance bootable disk?.

Something what gcloud cli suggests, such as
gcloud compute --project=ops-pcp-poc images create image-1 --source-disk=qdb01 --source-disk-zone=us-west1-a

Would source_image=qdb01 work?

Thanks
Lucky

[Rickard von Essen]

To my knowledge it's not possible. Do you have an imported boot disk? 

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[Lucky]

Hi

I have a running instance with lots of changes applied manually.
I need that instances disk now to be converted to a bootable image using packer, so that I can consume
that image to launch other instances using that original instance as source of base image.

gcloud cli supports that feature, but I didn't see anything packer docs.

Lucky

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 3:06:01 PM UTC-8, Rickard von Essen wrote:

To my knowledge it's not possible. Do you have an imported boot disk? 

On Jan 4, 2018 23:33, "Lucky" <lkr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

I was wondering, if there's equivalent in packer to create an image out of GCE's instance bootable disk?.

Something what gcloud cli suggests, such as
gcloud compute --project=ops-pcp-poc images create image-1 --source-disk=qdb01 --source-disk-zone=us-west1-a

Would source_image=qdb01 work?

Thanks
Lucky

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[Rickard von Essen]

Packer is a automation tool made to create image from a template. Not to create one from a running instance with random manual changes. Just use gcloud for that. 

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[Lucky]

I am not disagreeing to the fact what you are saying about packer.
I was just inquiring if it go extra mile to solve this or add as an feature.

As I mentioned in my original email gcloud does support that creating image from a given source instance's bootable disk and that's what I used it.