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+
+- hosts: localhost
+  tasks:
+    - command: date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S
+      register: out
+
+    - set_fact:
+        instance_name: "controller-{{out.stdout}}"
+
+    - command: >
+        gcloud compute instances create {{instance_name}} --can-ip-forward --machine-type=n1-standard-8 --preemptible --scopes=compute-ro --image-project=debian-cloud --image-family=debian-9