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make it as easy as EC2 :)

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Erik shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
available (pre-GA)  ·  Adminsiruisun (Product Manager, Google) responded  · 

Hey all – we’re excited to announce the public beta for renaming a VM. You can try it out by running:

$ gcloud beta compute instances set-name CURRENT_NAME —zone=ZONE —new-name=NEW_NAME

For this first version, you’ll need to stop the VM before you rename it.

More details at the docs here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/rename-instance

As always, feedback welcome. We’re working on GA’ing this feature soon, which will include adding support in the Developer Console UI.

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  • Aulo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow nearly 2021, and this feature still not available. I mean what's the point of not being able to rename it.

  • Merton commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Requested in 2015 and 5 years later, still waiting for such a simple feature. It's a bit disappointing.

  • Nima Chavoshi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi guys, truly ridiculous that user can NOT change the name of Instance !!! probably that is Google strategy to somehow make more money by pushing users to re-create the VM if "renaming" is required!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Guys this feature is taking too much time , Can we implement a very simple rename of VM

  • 정동호 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The name defined by a human can be easily changed, so it should be decoupled with the internal system. Thus the name should be coupled with something like id and the internal system should depend on the id. But they didn't D:

  • 정동호 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I couldn't get it. I thought the google engineer team consists of genius guys, but wow, it still doesn't support the very basic feature like renaming?? What a disappointment... this is absolutely the design flaw

  • John commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's been 9 months. Can we please get this support? Do you need help doing it??? Thanks!

  • Zaphod Beeblebrox commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is very frustrating. You should just be able to rename the instance, how basic is that ?! A truly terrible interface. My server has been stuck with the name "whatever test" for nine months !

  • Tiger commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    They need to find an intern to make it happen. Employees are busy working on things with "impact".

  • Bathinda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I voted this feature up.
    But what's the meaning that I only have 20 chances of voting up?

  • AL commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Really? Can we please have this ASAP? Going through 4-5 steps (Snapshot, clone, settings...) to do this is ridiculous and error prone when working with multiple instances!

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