Along with the disk attached as the bootable disk, we can attach additional disks to an instance. Since the size of these disks can be easily increased as per requirement, and can be detached and reattached to another instance, they provide great flexibility in terms of usage. We have seen them being used in all sorts of databases and network storage's like NFS.

Let us create a 10 GB standard persistent disk and mount it on a virtual machine:

- name: attach persistent disk
  gce_pd:
    disk_type: pd-standard
    size_gb: 10
    instance_name: app
    zone: "{{ zone }}"
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file...