- 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