Importing a Virtual Machine into GCE

When someone says Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services aka AWS has always been the first thing that comes to my mind. That’s because AWS has been there for over a decade now, and they have been the leader in terms of Cloud Computing which includes IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. However, in the past few years, more and more reputable companies are starting to compete with AWS. Competitors include Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Without a doubt, AWS Marketplace has far more official and non-official OS images than the rest. That should not come as a surprise given that AWS was launched at least a decade ago.

In my experience, I have had a few occasions where I can find an image in AWS but not in GCP. Such examples are VyOS, FreePBX, etc.

After a few trial and errors, I finally managed to import a VM using VirtualBox into GCE Image. I will be sharing my setup and the steps I did. In this example, I’m going to make a FreePBX in GCE.

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