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Petr Razumov
Petr Razumov

Reputation: 2152

How can I get a machine type of a Google Compute Engine instance?

I'm running some tests on different Compute Engine instances of various types and I'd like to get a machine type of the instance the testing script is currently running on to distinguish the results.

Is this possible with gcloud or some API call?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3114

Answers (2)

Dagang Wei
Dagang Wei

Reputation: 26548

Simply use the gcloud command to describe the instance:

$ gcloud compute instances describe <instance> --zone <zone> --format='table(machineType)'

or the instances.get API.

Upvotes: 3

Alexey Alexandrov
Alexey Alexandrov

Reputation: 3129

You can query the metadata server exposed to every Compute Engine VM instance for that. Running something like

wget -q -O - --header Metadata-Flavor:Google metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/machine-type

in a VM will print a string like projects/13236423431/machineTypes/n1-standard-2.

Upvotes: 9

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