Compute Engine -How to download an image from Google Cloud

[Claudia Almeda]

We currently have a virtual machine created in Compute engine (vps), We need to know how to download an image from Google cloud of our vps.

[Jason]

Hello,

To be clear, are you running a VM instance and you have a VPS running within the VM instance or are you running a VM instance and would like to know how to save and export the image being used on that VM instance? I am asking since there would be two different approaches to take.

If its the latter, then you can create a custom image [1] and then export it to a GCS bucket [2]. From there you would be able to download the image to a local machine. 

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/create-delete-deprecate-private-images#deleteinstance

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/export-image