Method: machineTypes.get

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Request body
• Response body
  • JSON representation
• Authorization Scopes
• IAM Permissions

Returns the specified machine type. Gets a list of available machine types by making a list() request.

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/machineTypes/{resourceId}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
project	string Project ID for this request.
zone	string The name of the zone for this request.
resourceId	string Name of the machine type to return.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

A Machine Type resource.

JSON representation
{ "id": string, "creationTimestamp": string, "name": string, "description": string, "guestCpus": number, "memoryMb": number, "maximumPersistentDisks": number, "maximumPersistentDisksSizeGb": string, "deprecated": { "state": enum, "replacement": string, "deprecated": string, "obsolete": string, "deleted": string }, "zone": string, "selfLink": string, "isSharedCpu": boolean, "kind": string }

Fields
id	string (fixed64 format) [Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.
creationTimestamp	string [Output Only] Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
name	string [Output Only] Name of the resource.
description	string [Output Only] An optional textual description of the resource.
guestCpus	number [Output Only] The number of virtual CPUs that are available to the instance.
memoryMb	number [Output Only] The amount of physical memory available to the instance, defined in MB.
maximumPersistentDisks	number [Output Only] Maximum persistent disks allowed.
maximumPersistentDisksSizeGb	string (int64 format) [Output Only] Maximum total persistent disks size (GB) allowed.
deprecated	object [Output Only] The deprecation status associated with this machine type.
deprecated.state	enum The deprecation state of this resource. This can be ACTIVE DEPRECATED, OBSOLETE, or DELETED. Operations which communicate the end of life date for an image, can use ACTIVE. Operations which create a new resource using a DEPRECATED resource will return successfully, but with a warning indicating the deprecated resource and recommending its replacement. Operations which use OBSOLETE or DELETED resources will be rejected and result in an error.
deprecated.replacement	string The URL of the suggested replacement for a deprecated resource. The suggested replacement resource must be the same kind of resource as the deprecated resource.
deprecated.deprecated	string An optional RFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change to DEPRECATED. This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.
deprecated.obsolete	string An optional RFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change to OBSOLETE. This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.
deprecated.deleted	string An optional RFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change to DELETED. This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.
zone	string [Output Only] The name of the zone where the machine type resides, such as us-central1-a.
selfLink	string [Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.
isSharedCpu	boolean [Output Only] Whether this machine type has a shared CPU. See Shared-core machine types for more information.
kind	string [Output Only] The type of the resource. Always compute#machineType for machine types.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following Google IAM permissions:

• compute.machineTypes.get

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles.