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- NAME
- gcloud workstations create - create a workstation
- SYNOPSIS
gcloud workstations create(WORKSTATION:--cluster=CLUSTER--config=CONFIG--region=REGION)[--async][--env=[KEY=VALUE,…]][--labels=[KEY=VALUE,…]][--source-workstation=SOURCE_WORKSTATION][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
- DESCRIPTION
- Create a workstation.
- EXAMPLES
- To create a workstation, run:
gcloudworkstationscreateWORKSTATION - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
- Workstation resource - Arguments and flags that specify the workstation tocreate. The arguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes ofthis resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group butcan be set in other ways.
To set the
projectattribute:- provide the argument
workstationon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--projecton the command line; - set the property
core/project.
This must be specified.
WORKSTATION- ID of the workstation or fully qualified identifier for the workstation.
To set the
workstationattribute:- provide the argument
workstationon the command line.
This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in thisgroup are specified.
- provide the argument
--cluster=CLUSTER- The name of the cluster containing the workstation.To set the
clusterattribute:- provide the argument
workstationon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--clusteron the command line; - set the property
workstations/cluster.
- provide the argument
--config=CONFIG- The name of the config containing the workstation.To set the
configattribute:- provide the argument
workstationon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--configon the command line; - set the property
workstations/config.
- provide the argument
--region=REGION- The name of the region of the workstation.To set the
regionattribute:- provide the argument
workstationon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--regionon the command line; - set the property
workstations/region.
- provide the argument
- provide the argument
- Workstation resource - Arguments and flags that specify the workstation tocreate. The arguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes ofthis resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group butcan be set in other ways.
- FLAGS
--async- Return immediately, without waiting for the operation in progress to complete.
--env=[KEY=VALUE,…]- Environment variables passed to the Workstation.
--labels=[KEY=VALUE,…]- Labels that are applied to the workstation and propagated to the underlyingCompute Engine resources.
--source-workstation=SOURCE_WORKSTATION- Source workstation from which this workstations persistent directories arecloned on creation. When specified, the workstations service agent must have
compute.disks.createSnapshotandcompute.snapshots.useReadOnlypermissions on the sourceworkstation's host project.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$gcloud helpfor details. - API REFERENCE
- This command uses the
workstations/v1API. The full documentationfor this API can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/workstations - NOTES
- These variants are also available:
gcloudalphaworkstationscreategcloudbetaworkstationscreate
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.