# Create a Machine Image for Instance Replication

## Overview

* Labs are timed and cannot be paused. The timer starts when you click **Start Lab**.
    
* The included cloud terminal is preconfigured with the gcloud SDK.
    
* Use the terminal to execute commands and then click **Check my progress** to verify your work.
    

## Challenge scenario

* Assume you are a cloud engineer and you have a virtual machine (VM) instance in a zone on Google Cloud Platform. Your goal is to preserve the configuration, metadata, permissions, and disk data of this VM by creating a machine image. This machine image will serve as a snapshot of the current state of your VM and can be used for multiple purposes such as Single disk backup, Multiple disk backup, Differential backup and Instance cloning.
    
* So your task is to create the machine image named `vm-mc-image-218` of the Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM instance named `wordpress-server` which is located in `us-east1-d` zone.
    

Click **Check my progress** to verify the objective.

Create the machine image of GCE VM named `wordpress-server`.

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## Solution of Lab

```apache
curl -LO raw.githubusercontent.com/ePlus-DEV/storage/refs/heads/main/labs/create-a-machine-image-for-instance-replication/lab.sh
source lab.sh
```

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**Script Alternative**

* Replace `[enter zone , [enter Machine Image Name , [enter VM Name]]` with region given
    

```apache
gcloud compute machine-images create [enter Machine Image Name] --source-instance=[enter VM Name] --source-instance-zone=[enter zone here]
```

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