renaming vm
make it as easy as EC2 :)
Erik
shared this idea
Hi folks, we know there is a ton of interest in this ability, and our engineering team is working on enabling it. We don’t have specific schedule updates right now, but I wanted to post an update acknowledging that we definitely agree this is an important ability and we will launch the functionality just as soon as we can!
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Fady Ibrahim
commented
We are in 2019 and still not supported. I think it is an important thing that should be done!!
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Anonymous
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Wow 2019, and this feature still not avaiable. I mean what's the point of not being able to rename it.
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bob
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+1
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Anonymous
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I was going crazy and shamed due the fact what I had to google something so basic, as rename an instance. I thought I was loosing my basic skills to find something that was supose to be very simple, but then I found this page and I do not know if I get relaxed or surprised for the lack of this feature, for so long time...
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Anonymous
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+1
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Steve Thompson
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+1
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Anonymous
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can't you just have each vm have an internal id that never changes, and the name would link back to it? that seems trivial
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jorgerial
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+1
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Jules Lefevre
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Paul, we appreciate the new update - to learn this is not an easy implementation is news, prior to this support had only agreed with us that "it does seem trivial" - leaving a lot to be wondered.
Looking forward to further updates.
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Umesh Kumar
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any ETA on when it is comming ?
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Jules Lefevre
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@Steve Larson, sadly mate snapshotting does not retain metadata etc. All of this information does have to be re-entered manually.
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Jules Lefevre
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4 years onwards and... Seriously, nothing.
I genuinely was astounted when I found there was not a way to rename VM's back in 2014. It's easy to say "Yes, you're right, it's trivial", but truly Paul, this is so far beyond "Trivial" that it's actually embarrassing to admit to my AWS supporter friends that "Yes you STILL can't rename VM's in GCP".
I can't believe this has gone this long without it's due attention. It's the 4th highest requested feature currently on GCE, and let's be honest, an intern with a day's free time could have had this solved all too long ago.
At the end of the day, if it takes 4 years to fix something "trivial" then perhaps the method in which issues are deemed worthy of fixing should be "fixed".
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Anonymous
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+1
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Anonymous
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+1
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Anonymous
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+1 really required!!!!
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William Barath
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This is taking a bizarre amount of time. The compute instance has a numerical unique ID. Everything should index by that, and then changing the name is just a trivial change to metadata. It's not like the name is actually being used for anything intelligent like ... oh... updating the /etc/hosts in the cloud shell ... so what exactly is the holdup?
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Anonymous
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It's necessary, please update this feature, always starts as a prototype that grow and become a real vm.
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Steve Larsen
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I realise not being able to rename a vm can be an annoyance, but it doesn't seem to be that critical given you can create labels for instances and leverage these values in the names you'd want to refer to an instance for operational purposes. Also, as an option to renaming I'm sure that if you snapshot the instance and start it up again you can name it whatever you want then. Two suitable workarounds to the inability to actually just rename the VM I think.
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Anonymous
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++1
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Arun Rao
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When we are dealing with dozens of VMs (which most Production systems have these days) we need to change things for management purposes from time to time... without the ability to do that, operations teams have to maintain a separate list of things offline... in Google Sheets!
What's the status of this request?