gcloud compute instances export - export a Compute Engine virtual machine instance's configuration to a file

gcloud compute instances export(INSTANCE :--zone=ZONE)[--destination=DESTINATION][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

Instance resource - Name of the instance to export. For details on validinstance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at:https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instancesThe arguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes of thisresource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but canbe set in other ways.

To set theproject attribute:

• provide the argumentinstance on the command line with a fullyspecified name;
• provide the argument--project on the command line;
• set the propertycore/project.

This must be specified.

INSTANCE

ID of the instance or fully qualified identifier for the instance.

To set theinstance attribute:

• provide the argumentinstance on the command line.

This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in thisgroup are specified.

--zone=ZONE

The name of the Google Compute Engine zone.

To set thezone attribute:

• provide the argumentinstance on the command line with a fullyspecified name;
• provide the argument--zone on the command line;
• set the propertycompute/zone.

--destination=DESTINATION

Path to a YAML file where the configuration will be exported. The exported datawill not contain any output-only fields. Alternatively, you may omit this flagto write to standard output. For a schema describing the export/import format,see $CLOUDSDKROOT/lib/googlecloudsdk/schemas/…

Run$gcloud help for details.