- NAME
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- gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed adopt-instances - adopt instances into a regional managed instance group
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed adopt-instancesNAME--instances=INSTANCE,[INSTANCE,…] [--region=REGION] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed adopt-instancesadopts one or more existing unmanaged instances into a regional managed instance group, thereby increasing the targetSize of the group.Adopting an instance does not reboot or modify the underlying virtual machine instances, but adds the instances to the instance group and applies any target pools or backend services configured for the group.
Currently, adopting instances is only supported for regional managed instance groups.
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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NAME- Name of the managed instance group to operate on.
- REQUIRED FLAGS
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--instances=INSTANCE,[INSTANCE,…]- Names of instances to adopt.
- OPTIONAL FLAGS
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--region=REGION-
Region of the managed instance group to operate on. If not specified, you might
be prompted to select a region (interactive mode only).
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the
property:compute/regiongcloud config set compute/region REGIONA list of regions can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute regions listTo unset the property, run:
gcloud config unset compute/regionAlternatively, the region can be stored in the environment variable
.CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
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These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$ gcloud helpfor details. - NOTES
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This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. This variant
is also available:
gcloud alpha compute instance-groups managed adopt-instances
gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed adopt-instances
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Last updated 2026-07-14 UTC.