NAME

gcloud-compute-instances-set-disk-auto-delete - Set auto-delete behavior for disks

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute instances set-disk-auto-delete
  INSTANCE
  [--auto-delete | --no-auto-delete]
  [--device-name DEVICE_NAME | --disk DISK]
  [--format FORMAT]
  [--help]
  [--project PROJECT]
  [--quiet, -q]
  [--zone ZONE]
  [-h]

DESCRIPTION

$gcloud compute instances set-disk-auto-delete is used to configure the auto-delete behavior for disks attached to Google Compute Engine virtual machines. When auto-delete is on, the persistent disk is deleted when the instance it is attached to is deleted.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

INSTANCE

The name of the instance for which to configure disk auto-deletion.

FLAGS

--auto-delete

Set auto-delete for the given disk to true.

--device-name DEVICE_NAME

Specifies a disk to set auto-delete for by its device name, which is the name that the guest operating system sees. The device name is set at the time that the disk is attached to the instance, and need not be the same as the persistent disk name. If the disk’s device name is specified, then its persistent disk name must not be specified using the “--disk” flag.

--disk DISK

Specifies a disk to set auto-delete for by its resource name. If you specify a disk to set auto-delete for by persistent disk name, then you must not specify its device name using the “--device-name” flag.

--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.

--no-auto-delete

Set auto-delete for the given disk to false.

--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.

--zone ZONE

The zone of the instance to configure disk auto-delete for. 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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