NAME

gcloud-compute-instances-add-tags - Add tags to Google Compute Engine virtual machine instances

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute instances add-tags
  NAME
  [--format FORMAT]
  [--help]
  [--project PROJECT]
  [--quiet, -q]
  [--tags TAG [TAG …]]
  [--zone ZONE]
  [-h]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud compute instances add-tags is used to add tags to Google Compute Engine virtual machine instances. For example, running:

$ gcloud compute instances add-tags my-instance --tags tag-1 tag-2

will add tags “tag-1” and “tag-2” to “my-instance”.

Tags can be used to identify the instances when adding network firewall rules. Tags can also be used to get firewall rules that already exist to be applied to the instance. See gcloud-compute-firewalls-create(1) for more details.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

NAME

The name of the instance whose tags should be modified.

FLAGS

--format FORMAT

Specify a format for printed output. By default, a command-specific human-friendly output format is used. Setting this flag to one of the available options will serialize the result of the command in the chosen format and print it to stdout. Supported formats are: "json", "text", "yaml".

--help

Display detailed help.

--project PROJECT

Google Cloud Platform project to use for this invocation.

--quiet

Disable all interactive prompts when running gcloud commands. If input is required, defaults will be used, or an error will be raised.

--tags TAG [TAG …]

Specifies strings to be attached to the instance for later identifying the instance when adding network firewall rules. Multiple tags can be attached by repeating this flag.

--zone ZONE

The zone of the instance to set tags on. If not specified, you will be prompted to select a zone.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the “compute/zone” property:

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can fetched by running:

gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable “CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE”.

-h

Print a summary help and exit.

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