Automatically restart Compute Engine (GCE) instance when an alert gets triggered
In this video we are going to implement a system for automatically restarting a compute engine (GCE) instance when an alert gets triggered. Google Cloud doesn't have this feature built in and I will discuss why I think this is. As a workaround we are going to write a Cloud Function with a Pub/Sub trigger and then the alert will publish on this Pub/Sub topic to start the process. We are going to write the Cloud Function in Python using the Compute Engine API via the Google API Python Client.
Source code:
https://vladsave.com/?p=256
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Why Google Cloud doesn't have auto restarts
01:77 Planning
02:28 The API and Python library we are going to use
03:05 Check the status of a VM
09:52 Start, stop VM
17:47 Deploy the code as Cloud Function, wire the alert to trigger the function