gcloud: Wed Sep 24 11:08:57 UTC 2025

gcloud/compute/instance-templates/create

@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
         [--resource-manager-tags=[KEY=VALUE,...]]
         [--resource-policies=[RESOURCE_POLICY,...]] [--no-restart-on-failure]
         [--shielded-integrity-monitoring] [--shielded-secure-boot]
-        [--shielded-vtpm] [--source-instance=SOURCE_INSTANCE]
+        [--shielded-vtpm] [--[no-]skip-guest-os-shutdown]
+        [--source-instance=SOURCE_INSTANCE]
         [--source-instance-zone=SOURCE_INSTANCE_ZONE] [--stack-type=STACK_TYPE]
         [--subnet=SUBNET] [--tags=TAG,[TAG,...]]
         [--termination-time=TERMINATION_TIME]
@@ -834,6 +835,12 @@ FLAGS
         about how to modify Shielded VM options, see
         https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/modifying-shielded-vm.
 
+     --[no-]skip-guest-os-shutdown
+        If enabled, then, when the instance is stopped or deleted, the instance
+        is immediately stopped without giving time to the guest OS to cleanly
+        shut down. Use --skip-guest-os-shutdown to enable and
+        --no-skip-guest-os-shutdown to disable.
+
      --source-instance=SOURCE_INSTANCE
         The name of the source instance that the instance template will be
         created from.