NAME
gcloud compute target-instances create - create a target instance for handling traffic from a forwarding rule
SYNOPSIS
gcloud compute target-instances create   NAME   [--description   DESCRIPTION]   [--format   FORMAT]   [--help]   --instance   INSTANCE   [--project   PROJECT_ID]   [--quiet,   -q]   [--zone   ZONE]   [-h]
DESCRIPTION
gcloud compute target-instances create is used to create a target instance for handling traffic from one or more forwarding rules. Target instances are ideal for traffic that should be managed by a single source. For more information on target instances, see https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/protocol-forwarding/#targetinstances.
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
NAME
The name of the target instance.
FLAGS
--description DESCRIPTION
An optional, textual description of the target instance.
--instance INSTANCE
The name of the virtual machine instance that will handle the traffic.
--zone ZONE
The zone of the instance to to create the target instance in. 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.
GLOBAL 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_ID
The Google Cloud Platform project name to use for this invocation. If omitted then the current project is assumed.
--quiet, -q
Disable all interactive prompts when running gcloud commands. If input is required, defaults will be used, or an error will be raised.
-h
Print a summary help and exit.
NOTES
This command is in the Google Cloud SDK compute component. See installing components if it is not installed.