gcloud beta compute instances set-name - set the name of a Compute Engine virtual machine
gcloud beta compute instances set-name INSTANCE_NAME --new-name=NEW_NAME [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
(BETA) gcloud beta compute instances set-name lets you change the name of a virtual machine.
To change the name of instance-1 to instance-2:
$ gcloud beta compute instances set-name instance-1 \ --new-name=instance-2
- INSTANCE_NAME
Name of the instance to operate 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
- --new-name=NEW_NAME
Specifies the new name of the instance.
- --zone=ZONE
Zone of the instance to operate 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 compute/zone property:
$ 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.
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.
This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. This variant is also available:
$ gcloud alpha compute instances set-name