github.com/bengesoff/terraform@v0.3.1-0.20141018223233-b25a53629922/website/source/docs/providers/google/r/compute_disk.html.markdown (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "google" 3 page_title: "Google: google_compute_disk" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-google-resource-disk" 5 --- 6 7 # google\_compute\_disk 8 9 Creates a new persistent disk within GCE, based on another disk. 10 11 ## Example Usage 12 13 ``` 14 resource "google_compute_disk" "default" { 15 name = "test-disk" 16 type = "pd-ssd" 17 zone = "us-central1-a" 18 image = "debian7-wheezy" 19 } 20 ``` 21 22 ## Argument Reference 23 24 The following arguments are supported: 25 26 * `name` - (Required) A unique name for the resource, required by GCE. 27 Changing this forces a new resource to be created. 28 29 * `zone` - (Required) The zone where this disk will be available. 30 31 * `image` - (Optional) The machine image to base this disk off of. 32 33 * `size` - (Optional) The size of the image in gigabytes. If not specified, 34 it will inherit the size of its base image. 35 36 * `type` - (Optional) The GCE disk type. 37 38 ## Attributes Reference 39 40 The following attributes are exported: 41 42 * `name` - The name of the resource. 43 * `zone` - The zone where the resource is located. 44 * `image` - The name of the image the disk is based off of. 45 * `size` - The size of the disk in gigabytes.