Start the instance and wait for it to complete start-up.
Size: 20GB (or something applicable for work load, typically only needed for logging).Machine type: Pick something applicable to the work load.Navigate to GCP Console -> Compute Engine -> Create an instance. Step 8 - Create and Launch New Instance Using Snapshot Navigate to GCP Console -> Compute Engine -> Disk.Ĭreate a snapshot of the pfsense-242-clean-install so that it can be used as a boot disk for our final instance. Step 7 - Create Snapshot of the Newly Installed Disk I typically stop the VM using the Google Cloud Console the last step of the installer when it asks to reboot. Stop the instance when the install is complete instead of rebooting. Step 6 - Follow Default Install and Shutdown Install Instance
Gcloud compute connect-to-serial-port -project=$PROJ -zone=$ZONE pfsense-install-1
Gcloud compute instances add-metadata -project=$PROJ -zone=$ZONE -metadata=serial-port-enable=1 pfsense-install-1
