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- NAME
- gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed start-instances - start the stopped instances in a managed instance group
- SYNOPSIS
gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed start-instancesNAME--instances=INSTANCE,[INSTANCE,…][--region=REGION|--zone=ZONE][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
- DESCRIPTION
(BETA)gcloud beta compute instance-groups managedstart-instancesstarts one or more instances from a managed instancegroup, thereby increasing the targetSize and reducing the targetStoppedSize ofthe group.The command returns the operation status per instance, which might be
,FAIL, orSUCCESS.MEMBER_NOT_FOUNDis returned only forregional groups when the gcloud command-line tool wasn't able to resolve thezone from the instance name.MEMBER_NOT_FOUND- EXAMPLES
- To start an instance from a managed instance group in the us-central1-a zone,run:
gcloudbetacomputeinstance-groupsmanagedstart-instancesexample-managed-instance-group--zone=us-central1-a--instances=example-instance - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
NAME- Name of the managed instance group to operate on.
- REQUIRED FLAGS
--instances=INSTANCE,[INSTANCE,…]- Names of instances to start.
- OPTIONAL FLAGS
- At most one of these can be specified:
--region=REGION- Region of the managed instance group to operate on. If not specified, you mightbe prompted to select a region (interactive mode only).
A list of regions can be fetched by running:
gcloudcomputeregionslistOverrides the default
compute/regionproperty value for thiscommand invocation. --zone=ZONE- Zone of the managed instance group to operate on. If not specified, you might beprompted to select a zone (interactive mode only).
A list of zones can be fetched by running:
gcloudcomputezoneslistOverrides the default
compute/zoneproperty value for this commandinvocation.
- At most one of these can be specified:
- 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 helpfor details. - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. Thesevariants are also available:
gcloudcomputeinstance-groupsmanagedstart-instancesgcloudalphacomputeinstance-groupsmanagedstart-instances
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.