Check if a given instance is Spot VM or not

This sample checks if a given instance is Spot VM or not.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Create and use Spot VMs

Code sample

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Compute Engine quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Compute Engine Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Compute Engine, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	compute "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1"
	"cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1/computepb"
)

// isSpotVM checks if a given instance is a Spot VM or not.
func isSpotVM(w io.Writer, projectID, zone, instanceName string) (bool, error) {
	// projectID := "your_project_id"
	// zone := "europe-central2-b"
	// instanceName := "your_instance_name"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := compute.NewInstancesRESTClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("NewInstancesRESTClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	req := &computepb.GetInstanceRequest{
		Project:  projectID,
		Zone:     zone,
		Instance: instanceName,
	}

	instance, err := client.Get(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return false, fmt.Errorf("GetInstance: %w", err)
	}

	isSpot := instance.GetScheduling().GetProvisioningModel() == computepb.Scheduling_SPOT.String()

	var isSpotMessage string
	if !isSpot {
		isSpotMessage = " not"
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Instance %s is%s spot\n", instanceName, isSpotMessage)

	return instance.GetScheduling().GetProvisioningModel() == computepb.Scheduling_SPOT.String(), nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Compute Engine quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Compute Engine Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Compute Engine, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.Instance;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.InstancesClient;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.Scheduling;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

public class CheckIsSpotVm {
  public static void main(String[] args)
          throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    // Project ID or project number of the Google Cloud project you want to use.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    // Name of the virtual machine to check.
    String instanceName = "your-route-name";
    // Name of the zone you want to use. For example: "us-west3-b"
    String zone = "your-zone";

    boolean isSpotVm = isSpotVm(projectId, instanceName, zone);
    System.out.printf("Is %s spot VM instance - %s", instanceName, isSpotVm);
  }

  // Check if a given instance is Spot VM or not.
  public static boolean isSpotVm(String projectId, String instanceName, String zone)
          throws IOException {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
    // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
    try (InstancesClient client = InstancesClient.create()) {
      Instance instance = client.get(projectId, zone, instanceName);

      return instance.getScheduling().getProvisioningModel()
              .equals(Scheduling.ProvisioningModel.SPOT.name());
    }
  }
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Compute Engine quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Compute Engine Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Compute Engine, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

from google.cloud import compute_v1


def is_spot_vm(project_id: str, zone: str, instance_name: str) -> bool:
    """
    Check if a given instance is Spot VM or not.
    Args:
        project_id: project ID or project number of the Cloud project you want to use.
        zone: name of the zone you want to use. For example: "us-west3-b"
        instance_name: name of the virtual machine to check.
    Returns:
        The Spot VM status of the instance.
    """
    instance_client = compute_v1.InstancesClient()
    instance = instance_client.get(
        project=project_id, zone=zone, instance=instance_name
    )
    return (
        instance.scheduling.provisioning_model
        == compute_v1.Scheduling.ProvisioningModel.SPOT.name
    )

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