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Basic scenarios for creating managed instance groups (MIGs) | Compute Engine Documentation

Basic scenarios for creating managed instance groups (MIGs)

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A managed instance group (MIG) is a group of virtual machine (VM) instances that you treat as a single entity. Each VM in a MIG is based on an instance template.

If you only need to create multiple VMs, but don't want them grouped together in a MIG, see the bulk instance API.

To learn about other Compute Engine options, see Choose a Compute Engine deployment strategy for your workload.

To get started with creating a MIG, read this document to find a basic configuration that works for you.

Basic scenarios for creating a MIG

MIGs have many configuration options. See the following guides to quickly get a MIG up and running for various scenarios:

Note: By default, Compute Engine creates–and when necessary recreates–each VM in a MIG based on the configuration that you set in the MIG's instance template. The default behavior for all persistent disks in a MIG is to delete or recreate them when the corresponding VM is deleted or recreated, so you shouldn't rely on attached disks as persistent data. To retain your data in a MIG, you can back up the data in another centralized location, such as Cloud Storage, or add configuration for stateful disks. Limitations

MIGs have different limitations depending on which features you use. The following lists show general MIG limitations as well as additional limitations if you use regional or stateful features.

A MIG that is spread across multiple zones—a regional MIG—has the following limitations:

Load balancing with a regional MIG doesn't support the max-rate target capacity in RATE and UTILIZATION balancing modes. To learn more about the usage guidelines for each load balancer, see Balancing modes and target capacity settings.

A MIG with stateful configuration—a stateful MIG—has the following limitations:

If you want to configure an autoscaler for your MIG, review the autoscaler specifications, too.

IPv6 support

If you want your MIG to include VM instances that use IPv6 addressing, you must use the dual-stack setting when you create your instance template. MIGs don't support IPv6-only instances.

For more information, see Create an instance template with IPv6 addresses.

Additional MIG tasks

After you've created a MIG, you might want to do the following:

Learn about the group and its VMs Resize the group Change the group's VM configuration Add MIG features Tutorials

Try a tutorial:

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Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC.

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