gcloud beta compute instances describe

NAME

gcloud beta compute instances describe - describe a virtual machine instance

SYNOPSIS

gcloud beta compute instances describe INSTANCE_NAME [--view=VIEW] [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

(BETA) gcloud beta compute instances describe displays all data associated with a Compute Engine virtual machine instance.

It's possible to limit the the scope of the description by using the '--format' flag. For details, see Filtering and formatting fun with gcloud.

EXAMPLES

To describe an instance named test-instance, run:

gcloud beta compute instances describe test-instance

To output only a set of fields from the available information, specify it using the '--format' flag:

gcloud beta compute instances describe test-instance --format="yaml(name,status,disks)"

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

INSTANCE_NAME

Name of the instance to describe. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances

FLAGS

--view=VIEW

Specifies the information that the output should contain. VIEW must be one of:

BASIC

Default output view. Output contains all configuration details of the instance, except partner metadata.

FULL

Output contains all configuration details of the instance, including partner metadata.

--zone=ZONE

Zone of the instance to describe. If not specified, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only). gcloud attempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined, gcloud prompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the compute/zone property:

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running:

gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

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 help for details.

NOTES

This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These variants are also available:

gcloud compute instances describe

gcloud alpha compute instances describe