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Hoit Jones
Hoit Jones

Reputation: 25

Using gcloud, how can I find the Virtual Machine Name?

I am trying to find the Google Cloud Compute Virtual Machine Name, using the gcloud command while logged in to the VM.

Me searching in the documentation didn't yield a result...

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1726

Answers (1)

DazWilkin
DazWilkin

Reputation: 40091

See Metadata service.

Specifically:

curl \
--header "Metadata-Flavor: Google" \
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/name

The Metadata service is a well-implemented API, you can navigate up-down the tree of resources, for example, dropping the final name from the above URL, enumerates all the resources under instance:

curl \
--header "Metadata-Flavor: Google" \
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/

returns:

attributes/
cpu-platform
description
disks/
guest-attributes/
hostname
id
image
legacy-endpoint-access/
licenses/
machine-type
maintenance-event
name
network-interfaces/
preempted
remaining-cpu-time
scheduling/
service-accounts/
tags
virtual-clock/
zone

You can then pick any of the above, append it to the URL to continue browsing.

The documentation in the link is similarly comprehensive and, in the case of instance metadata, as expected, reflects the response from GET'ing

https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/.../instances/...

i.e.:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances/get#response-body

Upvotes: 2

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