Upgrade F1-micro to E2-Micro by Aug. 31, 2021

[nickFalcone]

I received an email from GCP instructing me to change my F1-micro instance to E2-micro by August 31, 2021 to continue using the free tier. The E2-micro free tier becomes available on August 1, 2021.

I will attempt to change over on August 1st. I opened this issue to track documentation updates in GOOGLE-CLOUD.md where there are references to the F1-micro VM.

Email excerpt below:

What do I need to know?
The Free Tier F1-micro VM is changing to the E2-micro VM as the VM to use for free. On August 1, 2021, E2-micro Free Tier will be introduced. Follow these steps to change your machine type to E2-micro to avoid incurring charges for continuing to use F1-micro after August 31, 2021.

What do I need to do?
Starting August 1, 2021, change the machine type from F1-micro, or stop your existing F1-micro instance and begin using a E2-micro instance. VMs created with either method will automatically have the Free Tier discount applied to them. The supported regions will remain the same.

[Kwbmm]

+1 Received same mail. Should be specified in the documentation

[nickFalcone]

I updated my instance today from F1-micro to E2-micro with no issues by following change machine type GCP docs.

Pi-Hole admin dashboard and output from these two test sites look good after reactivating WireGuard:

• https://www.dnsleaktest.com/
• https://blockads.fivefilters.org/

[jcat59]

FYI - I followed the guide and my only change was to use the E2 instance based on this comment. Everything worked great.

As a side note, I accidentally chose the 'balanced persistent disk' rather than the 'standard persistent disk', and realized after I started getting charges. Had to figure out how to stop the VM, make a snapshot of the disk, move the VM to the new disk, then delete the old disk. Everything back up and running now. --- in the process, learned it's not a bad idea to save a snapshot every once in awhile anyways.

[dd8zc]

I can agree, you can't create any f1-micro anymore. The free tier is now e2-micro-VM
https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier/#compute

To be precise "1 vCPU + 614MB RAM f1-micro virtual machine instance per month in one of the following US regions:" isn't correct anymore.