gcloud beta compute instances describe - describe a virtual machine instance

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

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

gcloudbetacomputeinstancesdescribetest-instance

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

gcloudbetacomputeinstancesdescribetest-instance--format="yaml(name,status,disks)"

INSTANCE_NAME

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

--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 partnermetadata.

--zone=ZONE

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

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

gcloudconfigsetcompute/zoneZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running:

gcloudcomputezoneslist

To unset the property, run:

gcloudconfigunsetcompute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variableCLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

Run$gcloud help for details.