NAME gcloud beta compute target-instances create - create a target instance for handling traffic from a forwarding rule SYNOPSIS gcloud beta compute target-instances create NAME --instance=INSTANCE [--description=DESCRIPTION] [--instance-zone=INSTANCE_ZONE] [--network=NETWORK] [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...] DESCRIPTION (BETA) gcloud beta 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://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/protocol-forwarding/#targetinstances POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS NAME Name of the target instance to operate on. REQUIRED FLAGS --instance=INSTANCE The name of the virtual machine instance that will handle the traffic. OPTIONAL FLAGS --description=DESCRIPTION An optional, textual description of the target instance. --instance-zone=INSTANCE_ZONE Zone of the instance to operate on. If not specified, it will be set to the same as zone. Overrides the default compute/zone property value for this command invocation. --network=NETWORK Network that this target instance applies to. This is only necessary if the corresponding instance has multiple network interfaces. If not specified, the default network interface will be used. --zone=ZONE Zone of the target instance to operate on. If not specified and the compute/zone property isn't set, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only). 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 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. 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 This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These variants are also available: $ gcloud compute target-instances create $ gcloud alpha compute target-instances create