For example we need to enable the display device on our windows VMs, necessary for automated UI tests. This seems like a common requirement for TeamCity.
See --enable-display-device here:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/instances/create#--enable-display-device
We can't solve this using instance templates; Google do not yet support this configuration in instance templates. No sign of that happening:
https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/133047176
(There are other options we might want, like local SSD, or E2 machine types - but these can be solved with instance templates although it's not so convenient).
For example we need to enable the display device on our windows VMs, necessary for automated UI tests. This seems like a common requirement for TeamCity.
See
--enable-display-devicehere:https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/instances/create#--enable-display-device
We can't solve this using instance templates; Google do not yet support this configuration in instance templates. No sign of that happening:
https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/133047176
(There are other options we might want, like local SSD, or E2 machine types - but these can be solved with instance templates although it's not so convenient).