# Unable to find Ansible module for Google Cloud Platform server creation using Machine Images

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-find-ansible-module-for-google-cloud-platform-server-creation-using-machine-images/34628>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 16, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-find-ansible-module-for-google-cloud-platform-server-creation-using-machine-images/34628 "2021-02-16T13:02:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shristi\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Shristi\_Singh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shristi_Singh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-find-ansible-module-for-google-cloud-platform-server-creation-using-machine-images/34628/1 "2021-02-16T13:02:42Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to create a playbook to launch google cloud server using machine image.  
For reference please use this - [https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-images/create-instance-from-machine-image](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-images/create-instance-from-machine-image).

In Ansible I found this - [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/google/cloud/gcp\_compute\_instance\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/google/cloud/gcp_compute_instance_module.html) to launch google cloud server but this doesn’t have an option to use machine image as the source.

Please let me know if I am missing something here.

Regards,  
Shristi Singh

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**Author:** ![Shristi\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Shristi\_Singh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shristi_Singh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-find-ansible-module-for-google-cloud-platform-server-creation-using-machine-images/34628/2 "2021-02-16T13:35:52Z")

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Hi,

Thank you for the response but I am looking for a way to create a server using machine images. I already have machine images present.  
I want to create a playbook that will use those machine images as the source to launch the servers for the purpose of cloud provisioning or cloud operations.