- NAME
-
- gcloud compute instances remove-metadata - remove instance metadata
- SYNOPSIS
-
-
gcloud compute instances remove-metadata
INSTANCE_NAME
[--zone
=ZONE
] [--all
|--keys
=KEY
,[KEY
,…]] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …
]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- gcloud compute instances remove-metadata can be used to remove instance metadata entries.
- EXAMPLES
-
To remove metadata keys
andimportant-data
along with their data from an instance nameduseless-data
, run:test-instance
gcloud compute instances remove-metadata test-instance --keys=important-data,useless-data
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
-
INSTANCE_NAME
- Name of the instance to set metadata on. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances
- FLAGS
-
--zone
=ZONE
-
Zone of the instance to set metadata on. If not specified, you might be prompted
to select a zone (interactive mode only).
gcloud
attempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined,gcloud
prompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the
property:compute/zone
gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE
A list of zones can be 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
-
At most one of these can be specified:
--all
- If provided, all metadata entries are removed.
--keys
=KEY
,[KEY
,…]- The keys of the entries to remove.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
-
These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file
,--account
,--billing-project
,--configuration
,--flags-file
,--flatten
,--format
,--help
,--impersonate-service-account
,--log-http
,--project
,--quiet
,--trace-token
,--user-output-enabled
,--verbosity
.Run
$ gcloud help
for details. - NOTES
-
These variants are also available:
gcloud alpha compute instances remove-metadata
gcloud beta compute instances remove-metadata
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Last updated 2024-05-21 UTC.