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Working with Custom Images on Google Compute Engine
This lab focuses on standardizing virtual machine (VM) deployments using Google Compute Engine custom images and image families in a production-like environment. A baseline VM is configured and captured as a reusable custom image, with successive image versions organized in an image family. New VM instances are then provisioned from the image family to demonstrate consistent, version-controlled deployments while reducing configuration drift.
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Challenge
Capture the state of a configured VM into a custom disk image
- Provision and configure a Compute Engine virtual machine to represent a standardized operating system baseline.
- Capture the configured virtual machine as a reusable custom disk image.
- Verify that the custom image accurately preserves the baseline system configuration.
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Challenge
Organize image versions using image families to prevent configuration drift
- Create and publish versioned custom images within a single image family.
- Implement an updated image version to represent changes to the approved platform baseline.
- Validate that the image family resolves to the latest approved image version.
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Challenge
Provision new instances strictly from image families to ensure version consistency
- Provision a Compute Engine virtual machine using an image family as the deployment source.
- Validate that the deployed instance is created from the latest approved image version.
- Verify that the standardized operating system configuration is preserved in the new instance.
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