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	"plain_text": "REST Resource: instances  |  Compute Engine  |  Google Cloud\r\nDocumentation\r\nArchived: 2026-04-05 15:53:29 UTC\r\nkind\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#instance for instances.\r\nid\r\nstring (uint64 format)\r\n[Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.\r\ncreationTimestamp\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.\r\nname\r\nstring\r\nThe name of the resource, provided by the client when initially creating the resource. The resource name must be\r\n1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match\r\nthe regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter,\r\nand all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a\r\ndash.\r\ndescription\r\nstring\r\nAn optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.\r\ntags\r\nobject\r\nTags to apply to this instance. Tags are used to identify valid sources or targets for network firewalls and are\r\nspecified by the client during instance creation. The tags can be later modified by the setTags method. Each tag\r\nwithin the list must comply with RFC1035. Multiple tags can be specified via the 'tags.items' field.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 1 of 40\n\ntags.items[]\r\nstring\r\nAn array of tags. Each tag must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035.\r\ntags.fingerprint\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nSpecifies a fingerprint for this request, which is essentially a hash of the tags' contents and used for optimistic\r\nlocking. The fingerprint is initially generated by Compute Engine and changes after every request to modify or\r\nupdate tags. You must always provide an up-to-date fingerprint hash in order to update or change tags.\r\nTo see the latest fingerprint, make get() request to the instance.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\nmachineType\r\nstring\r\nFull or partial URL of the machine type resource to use for this instance, in the format:\r\nzones/zone/machineTypes/machine-type . This is provided by the client when the instance is created. For\r\nexample, the following is a valid partial url to a predefined machine type:\r\nzones/us-central1-f/machineTypes/n1-standard-1\r\nTo create a custom machine type, provide a URL to a machine type in the following format, where CPUS is 1 or\r\nan even number up to 32 (2, 4, 6, ... 24, etc), and MEMORY is the total memory for this instance. Memory must be\r\na multiple of 256 MB and must be supplied in MB (e.g. 5 GB of memory is 5120 MB):\r\nzones/zone/machineTypes/custom-CPUS-MEMORY\r\nFor example: zones/us-central1-f/machineTypes/custom-4-5120 For a full list of restrictions, read the\r\nSpecifications for custom machine types.\r\nstatus\r\nenum\r\n[Output Only] The status of the instance. One of the following values: PROVISIONING , STAGING , RUNNING ,\r\nSTOPPING , SUSPENDING , SUSPENDED , REPAIRING , and TERMINATED . For more information about the status of\r\nthe instance, see Instance life cycle.\r\nstatusMessage\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] An optional, human-readable explanation of the status.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 2 of 40\n\nzone\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] URL of the zone where the instance resides. You must specify this field as part of the HTTP request\r\nURL. It is not settable as a field in the request body.\r\ncanIpForward\r\nboolean\r\nAllows this instance to send and receive packets with non-matching destination or source IPs. This is required if\r\nyou plan to use this instance to forward routes. For more information, see Enabling IP Forwarding.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[]\r\nobject\r\nAn array of network configurations for this instance. These specify how interfaces are configured to interact with\r\nother network services, such as connecting to the internet. Multiple interfaces are supported per instance.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].kind\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#networkInterface for network interfaces.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].network\r\nstring\r\nURL of the VPC network resource for this instance. When creating an instance, if neither the network nor the\r\nsubnetwork is specified, the default network global/networks/default is used. If the selected project doesn't\r\nhave the default network, you must specify a network or subnet. If the network is not specified but the subnetwork\r\nis specified, the network is inferred.\r\nIf you specify this property, you can specify the network as a full or partial URL. For example, the following are\r\nall valid URLs:\r\nhttps://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/global/networks/network\r\nprojects/project/global/networks/network\r\nglobal/networks/default\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].subnetwork\r\nstring\r\nThe URL of the Subnetwork resource for this instance. If the network resource is in legacy mode, do not specify\r\nthis field. If the network is in auto subnet mode, specifying the subnetwork is optional. If the network is in custom\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 3 of 40\n\nsubnet mode, specifying the subnetwork is required. If you specify this field, you can specify the subnetwork as a\r\nfull or partial URL. For example, the following are all valid URLs:\r\nhttps://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/region/subnetworks/subnetwork\r\nregions/region/subnetworks/subnetwork\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].networkIP\r\nstring\r\nAn IPv4 internal IP address to assign to the instance for this network interface. If not specified by the user, an\r\nunused internal IP is assigned by the system.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6Address\r\nstring\r\nAn IPv6 internal network address for this network interface. To use a static internal IP address, it must be unused\r\nand in the same region as the instance's zone. If not specified, Google Cloud will automatically assign an internal\r\nIPv6 address from the instance's subnetwork.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].internalIpv6PrefixLength\r\ninteger\r\nThe prefix length of the primary internal IPv6 range.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].name\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The name of the network interface, which is generated by the server. For a VM, the network\r\ninterface uses the nicN naming format. Where N is a value between 0 and 7 . The default interface value is\r\nnic0 .\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[]\r\nobject\r\nAn array of configurations for this interface. Currently, only one access config, ONE_TO_ONE_NAT , is supported. If\r\nthere are no accessConfigs specified, then this instance will have no external internet access.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].kind\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#accessConfig for access configs.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].type\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 4 of 40\n\nenum\r\nThe type of configuration. In accessConfigs (IPv4), the default and only option is ONE_TO_ONE_NAT . In\r\nipv6AccessConfigs , the default and only option is DIRECT_IPV6 .\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].name\r\nstring\r\nThe name of this access configuration. In accessConfigs (IPv4), the default and recommended name is\r\nExternal NAT , but you can use any arbitrary string, such as My external IP or Network Access . In\r\nipv6AccessConfigs , the recommend name is External IPv6 .\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].natIP\r\nstring\r\nApplies to accessConfigs (IPv4) only. An external IP address associated with this instance. Specify an unused\r\nstatic external IP address available to the project or leave this field undefined to use an IP from a shared ephemeral\r\nIP address pool. If you specify a static external IP address, it must live in the same region as the zone of the\r\ninstance.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].externalIpv6\r\nstring\r\nApplies to ipv6AccessConfigs only. The first IPv6 address of the external IPv6 range associated with this\r\ninstance, prefix length is stored in externalIpv6PrefixLength in ipv6AccessConfig . To use a static external IP\r\naddress, it must be unused and in the same region as the instance's zone. If not specified, Google Cloud will\r\nautomatically assign an external IPv6 address from the instance's subnetwork.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].externalIpv6PrefixLength\r\ninteger\r\nApplies to ipv6AccessConfigs only. The prefix length of the external IPv6 range.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].setPublicPtr\r\nboolean\r\nSpecifies whether a public DNS 'PTR' record should be created to map the external IP address of the instance to a\r\nDNS domain name.\r\nThis field is not used in ipv6AccessConfig . A default PTR record will be created if the VM has external IPv6\r\nrange associated.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].publicPtrDomainName\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 5 of 40\n\nstring\r\nThe DNS domain name for the public PTR record.\r\nYou can set this field only if the setPublicPtr field is enabled in accessConfig . If this field is unspecified in\r\nipv6AccessConfig , a default PTR record will be created for first IP in associated external IPv6 range.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].networkTier\r\nenum\r\nThis signifies the networking tier used for configuring this access configuration and can only take the following\r\nvalues: PREMIUM , STANDARD .\r\nIf an AccessConfig is specified without a valid external IP address, an ephemeral IP will be created with this\r\nnetworkTier.\r\nIf an AccessConfig with a valid external IP address is specified, it must match that of the networkTier associated\r\nwith the Address resource owning that IP.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].accessConfigs[].securityPolicy\r\nstring\r\nThe resource URL for the security policy associated with this access config.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[]\r\nobject\r\nAn array of IPv6 access configurations for this interface. Currently, only one IPv6 access config, DIRECT_IPV6 , is\r\nsupported. If there is no ipv6AccessConfig specified, then this instance will have no external IPv6 Internet\r\naccess.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].kind\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#accessConfig for access configs.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].type\r\nenum\r\nThe type of configuration. In accessConfigs (IPv4), the default and only option is ONE_TO_ONE_NAT . In\r\nipv6AccessConfigs , the default and only option is DIRECT_IPV6 .\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].name\r\nstring\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 6 of 40\n\nThe name of this access configuration. In accessConfigs (IPv4), the default and recommended name is\r\nExternal NAT , but you can use any arbitrary string, such as My external IP or Network Access . In\r\nipv6AccessConfigs , the recommend name is External IPv6 .\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].natIP\r\nstring\r\nApplies to accessConfigs (IPv4) only. An external IP address associated with this instance. Specify an unused\r\nstatic external IP address available to the project or leave this field undefined to use an IP from a shared ephemeral\r\nIP address pool. If you specify a static external IP address, it must live in the same region as the zone of the\r\ninstance.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].externalIpv6\r\nstring\r\nApplies to ipv6AccessConfigs only. The first IPv6 address of the external IPv6 range associated with this\r\ninstance, prefix length is stored in externalIpv6PrefixLength in ipv6AccessConfig . To use a static external IP\r\naddress, it must be unused and in the same region as the instance's zone. If not specified, Google Cloud will\r\nautomatically assign an external IPv6 address from the instance's subnetwork.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].externalIpv6PrefixLength\r\ninteger\r\nApplies to ipv6AccessConfigs only. The prefix length of the external IPv6 range.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].setPublicPtr\r\nboolean\r\nSpecifies whether a public DNS 'PTR' record should be created to map the external IP address of the instance to a\r\nDNS domain name.\r\nThis field is not used in ipv6AccessConfig . A default PTR record will be created if the VM has external IPv6\r\nrange associated.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].publicPtrDomainName\r\nstring\r\nThe DNS domain name for the public PTR record.\r\nYou can set this field only if the setPublicPtr field is enabled in accessConfig . If this field is unspecified in\r\nipv6AccessConfig , a default PTR record will be created for first IP in associated external IPv6 range.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].networkTier\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 7 of 40\n\nenum\r\nThis signifies the networking tier used for configuring this access configuration and can only take the following\r\nvalues: PREMIUM , STANDARD .\r\nIf an AccessConfig is specified without a valid external IP address, an ephemeral IP will be created with this\r\nnetworkTier.\r\nIf an AccessConfig with a valid external IP address is specified, it must match that of the networkTier associated\r\nwith the Address resource owning that IP.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessConfigs[].securityPolicy\r\nstring\r\nThe resource URL for the security policy associated with this access config.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].aliasIpRanges[]\r\nobject\r\nAn array of alias IP ranges for this network interface. You can only specify this field for network interfaces in\r\nVPC networks.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].aliasIpRanges[].ipCidrRange\r\nstring\r\nThe IP alias ranges to allocate for this interface. This IP CIDR range must belong to the specified subnetwork and\r\ncannot contain IP addresses reserved by system or used by other network interfaces. This range may be a single IP\r\naddress (such as 10.2.3.4 ), a netmask (such as /24 ) or a CIDR-formatted string (such as 10.1.2.0/24 ).\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].aliasIpRanges[].subnetworkRangeName\r\nstring\r\nThe name of a subnetwork secondary IP range from which to allocate an IP alias range. If not specified, the\r\nprimary range of the subnetwork is used.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].fingerprint\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nFingerprint hash of contents stored in this network interface. This field will be ignored when inserting an\r\nInstance or adding a NetworkInterface . An up-to-date fingerprint must be provided in order to update the\r\nNetworkInterface . The request will fail with error 400 Bad Request if the fingerprint is not provided, or 412\r\nPrecondition Failed if the fingerprint is out of date.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 8 of 40\n\nnetworkInterfaces[].stackType\r\nenum\r\nThe stack type for this network interface. To assign only IPv4 addresses, use IPV4_ONLY. To assign both IPv4\r\nand IPv6 addresses, use IPV4_IPV6 . If not specified, IPV4_ONLY is used.\r\nThis field can be both set at instance creation and update network interface operations.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].ipv6AccessType\r\nenum\r\n[Output Only] One of EXTERNAL, INTERNAL to indicate whether the IP can be accessed from the Internet.\r\nThis field is always inherited from its subnetwork.\r\nValid only if stackType is IPV4_IPV6 .\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].queueCount\r\ninteger\r\nThe networking queue count that's specified by users for the network interface. Both Rx and Tx queues will be set\r\nto this number. It'll be empty if not specified by the users.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].nicType\r\nenum\r\nThe type of vNIC to be used on this interface. This may be gVNIC or VirtioNet.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].networkAttachment\r\nstring\r\nThe URL of the network attachment that this interface should connect to in the following format:\r\nprojects/{projectNumber}/regions/{region_name}/networkAttachments/{network_attachment_name}.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].parentNicName\r\nstring\r\nName of the parent network interface of a dynamic network interface.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].vlan\r\ninteger\r\nVLAN tag of a dynamic network interface, must be an integer in the range from 2 to 255 inclusively.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].igmpQuery\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 9 of 40\n\nenum\r\nIndicate whether igmp query is enabled on the network interface or not. If enabled, also indicates the version of\r\nIGMP supported.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].serviceClassId\r\nstring\r\nOptional. Producer Service's Service class Id for the region of this network interface. Can only be used with\r\nnetworkAttachment. It is not possible to use on its own however, networkAttachment can be used without\r\nserviceClassId.\r\nnetworkInterfaces[].enableVpcScopedDns\r\nboolean\r\nOptional. If true, DNS resolution will be enabled over this interface. Only valid with networkAttachment.\r\ndisks[]\r\nobject\r\nArray of disks associated with this instance. Persistent disks must be created before you can assign them.\r\ndisks[].kind\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#attachedDisk for attached disks.\r\ndisks[].type\r\nenum\r\nSpecifies the type of the disk, either SCRATCH or PERSISTENT . If not specified, the default is PERSISTENT .\r\ndisks[].mode\r\nenum\r\nThe mode in which to attach this disk, either READ_WRITE or READ_ONLY . If not specified, the default is to attach\r\nthe disk in READ_WRITE mode.\r\ndisks[].savedState\r\nenum\r\nOutput only. For LocalSSD disks on VM Instances in STOPPED or SUSPENDED state, this field is set to\r\nPRESERVED if the LocalSSD data has been saved to a persistent location by customer request. (see the\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 10 of 40\n\ndiscardLocalSsd option on instances.stop/instances.suspend). Read-only in the api.\r\ndisks[].source\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies a valid partial or full URL to an existing Persistent Disk resource. When creating a new instance boot\r\ndisk, one of initializeParams.sourceImage or initializeParams.sourceSnapshot or disks.source is\r\nrequired.\r\nIf desired, you can also attach existing non-root persistent disks using this property. This field is only applicable\r\nfor persistent disks.\r\nNote that for InstanceTemplate, specify the disk name for zonal disk, and the URL for regional disk.\r\ndisks[].deviceName\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies a unique device name of your choice that is reflected into the /dev/disk/by-id/google-* tree of a\r\nLinux operating system running within the instance. This name can be used to reference the device for mounting,\r\nresizing, and so on, from within the instance.\r\nIf not specified, the server chooses a default device name to apply to this disk, in the form persistent-disk-x ,\r\nwhere x is a number assigned by Google Compute Engine. This field is only applicable for persistent disks.\r\ndisks[].index\r\ninteger\r\n[Output Only] A zero-based index to this disk, where 0 is reserved for the boot disk. If you have many disks\r\nattached to an instance, each disk would have a unique index number.\r\ndisks[].boot\r\nboolean\r\nIndicates that this is a boot disk. The virtual machine will use the first partition of the disk for its root filesystem.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams\r\nobject\r\n[Input Only] Specifies the parameters for a new disk that will be created alongside the new instance. Use\r\ninitialization parameters to create boot disks or local SSDs attached to the new instance.\r\nThis property is mutually exclusive with the source property; you can only define one or the other, but not both.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.diskName\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 11 of 40\n\nstring\r\nSpecifies the disk name. If not specified, the default is to use the name of the instance. If a disk with the same\r\nname already exists in the given region, the existing disk is attached to the new instance and the new disk is not\r\ncreated.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceImage\r\nstring\r\nThe source image to create this disk. When creating a new instance boot disk, one of\r\ninitializeParams.sourceImage or initializeParams.sourceSnapshot or disks.source is required.\r\nTo create a disk with one of the public operating system images, specify the image by its family name. For\r\nexample, specify family/debian-9 to use the latest Debian 9 image:\r\nprojects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-9\r\nAlternatively, use a specific version of a public operating system image:\r\nprojects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-9-stretch-vYYYYMMDD\r\nTo create a disk with a custom image that you created, specify the image name in the following format:\r\nglobal/images/my-custom-image\r\nYou can also specify a custom image by its image family, which returns the latest version of the image in that\r\nfamily. Replace the image name with family/family-name :\r\nglobal/images/family/my-image-family\r\nIf the source image is deleted later, this field will not be set.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.diskSizeGb\r\nstring (int64 format)\r\nSpecifies the size of the disk in base-2 GB. The size must be at least 10 GB. If you specify a sourceImage , which\r\nis required for boot disks, the default size is the size of the sourceImage . If you do not specify a sourceImage ,\r\nthe default disk size is 500 GB.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.diskType\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies the disk type to use to create the instance. If not specified, the default is pd-standard , specified using\r\nthe full URL. For example:\r\nhttps://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/zones/zone/diskTypes/pd-standard\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 12 of 40\n\nFor a full list of acceptable values, see Persistent disk types. If you specify this field when creating a VM, you can\r\nprovide either the full or partial URL. For example, the following values are valid:\r\nhttps://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/zones/zone/diskTypes/diskType\r\nprojects/project/zones/zone/diskTypes/diskType\r\nzones/zone/diskTypes/diskType\r\nIf you specify this field when creating or updating an instance template or all-instances configuration, specify the\r\ntype of the disk, not the URL. For example: pd-standard .\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceImageEncryptionKey\r\nobject\r\nThe customer-supplied encryption key of the source image. Required if the source image is protected by a\r\ncustomer-supplied encryption key.\r\nInstanceTemplate and InstancePropertiesPatch do not store customer-supplied encryption keys, so you cannot\r\ncreate disks for instances in a managed instance group if the source images are encrypted with your own keys.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceImageEncryptionKey.rawKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies a 256-bit customer-supplied encryption key, encoded in RFC 4648 base64 to either encrypt or decrypt\r\nthis resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rawKey\": \"SGVsbG8gZnJvbSBHb29nbGUgQ2xvdWQgUGxhdGZvcm0=\"\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceImageEncryptionKey.rsaEncryptedKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies an RFC 4648 base64 encoded, RSA-wrapped 2048-bit customer-supplied encryption key to either\r\nencrypt or decrypt this resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rsaEncryptedKey\": \"ieCx/NcW06PcT7Ep1X6LUTc/hLvUDYyzSZPPVCVPTVEohpeHASqC8uw5TzyO9U+Fka9JFH z0mBibXUIn\r\nThe key must meet the following requirements before you can provide it to Compute Engine:\r\n1. The key is wrapped using a RSA public key certificate provided by Google.\r\n2. After being wrapped, the key must be encoded in RFC 4648 base64 encoding.\r\nGets the RSA public key certificate provided by Google at:\r\n https://cloud-certs.storage.googleapis.com/google-cloud-csek-ingress.pem\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 13 of 40\n\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceImageEncryptionKey.kmsKeyName\r\nstring\r\nThe name of the encryption key that is stored in Google Cloud KMS. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key\r\nThe fully-qualifed key name may be returned for resource GET requests. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key /crypto\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceImageEncryptionKey.sha256\r\nstring\r\n[Output only] The RFC 4648 base64 encoded SHA-256 hash of the customer-supplied encryption key that\r\nprotects this resource.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceImageEncryptionKey.kmsKeyServiceAccount\r\nstring\r\nThe service account being used for the encryption request for the given KMS key. If absent, the Compute Engine\r\ndefault service account is used. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyServiceAccount\": \"name@ projectId.iam.gserviceaccount.com/\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.labels\r\nmap (key: string, value: string)\r\nLabels to apply to this disk. These can be later modified by the disks.setLabels method. This field is only\r\napplicable for persistent disks.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceSnapshot\r\nstring\r\nThe source snapshot to create this disk. When creating a new instance boot disk, one of\r\ninitializeParams.sourceSnapshot or initializeParams.sourceImage or disks.source is required.\r\nTo create a disk with a snapshot that you created, specify the snapshot name in the following format:\r\nglobal/snapshots/my-backup\r\nIf the source snapshot is deleted later, this field will not be set.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 14 of 40\n\nNote: You cannot create VMs in bulk using a snapshot as the source. Use an image instead when you create VMs\r\nusing the bulk insert method.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey\r\nobject\r\nThe customer-supplied encryption key of the source snapshot.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey.rawKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies a 256-bit customer-supplied encryption key, encoded in RFC 4648 base64 to either encrypt or decrypt\r\nthis resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rawKey\": \"SGVsbG8gZnJvbSBHb29nbGUgQ2xvdWQgUGxhdGZvcm0=\"\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey.rsaEncryptedKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies an RFC 4648 base64 encoded, RSA-wrapped 2048-bit customer-supplied encryption key to either\r\nencrypt or decrypt this resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rsaEncryptedKey\": \"ieCx/NcW06PcT7Ep1X6LUTc/hLvUDYyzSZPPVCVPTVEohpeHASqC8uw5TzyO9U+Fka9JFH z0mBibXUIn\r\nThe key must meet the following requirements before you can provide it to Compute Engine:\r\n1. The key is wrapped using a RSA public key certificate provided by Google.\r\n2. After being wrapped, the key must be encoded in RFC 4648 base64 encoding.\r\nGets the RSA public key certificate provided by Google at:\r\n https://cloud-certs.storage.googleapis.com/google-cloud-csek-ingress.pem\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey.kmsKeyName\r\nstring\r\nThe name of the encryption key that is stored in Google Cloud KMS. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key\r\nThe fully-qualifed key name may be returned for resource GET requests. For example:\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 15 of 40\n\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key /crypto\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey.sha256\r\nstring\r\n[Output only] The RFC 4648 base64 encoded SHA-256 hash of the customer-supplied encryption key that\r\nprotects this resource.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.sourceSnapshotEncryptionKey.kmsKeyServiceAccount\r\nstring\r\nThe service account being used for the encryption request for the given KMS key. If absent, the Compute Engine\r\ndefault service account is used. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyServiceAccount\": \"name@ projectId.iam.gserviceaccount.com/\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.description\r\nstring\r\nAn optional description. Provide this property when creating the disk.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.replicaZones[]\r\nstring\r\nRequired for each regional disk associated with the instance. Specify the URLs of the zones where the disk should\r\nbe replicated to. You must provide exactly two replica zones, and one zone must be the same as the instance zone.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.resourcePolicies[]\r\nstring\r\nResource policies applied to this disk for automatic snapshot creations. Specified using the full or partial URL.\r\nFor instance template, specify only the resource policy name.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.onUpdateAction\r\nenum\r\nSpecifies which action to take on instance update with this disk. Default is to use the existing disk.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.provisionedIops\r\nstring (int64 format)\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 16 of 40\n\nIndicates how many IOPS to provision for the disk. This sets the number of I/O operations per second that the disk\r\ncan handle. Values must be between 10,000 and 120,000. For more details, see the Extreme persistent disk\r\ndocumentation.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.licenses[]\r\nstring\r\nA list of publicly visible licenses. Reserved for Google's use.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.architecture\r\nenum\r\nThe architecture of the attached disk. Valid values are arm64 or x86_64.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.resourceManagerTags\r\nmap (key: string, value: string)\r\nInput only. Resource manager tags to be bound to the disk. Tag keys and values have the same definition as\r\nresource manager tags. Keys and values can be either in numeric format, such as tagKeys/{tag_key_id} and\r\ntagValues/456 or in namespaced format such as {org_id|projectId}/{tag_key_short_name} and\r\n{tag_value_short_name} . The field is ignored (both PUT \u0026 PATCH) when empty.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.provisionedThroughput\r\nstring (int64 format)\r\nIndicates how much throughput to provision for the disk. This sets the number of throughput mb per second that\r\nthe disk can handle. Values must greater than or equal to 1.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.enableConfidentialCompute\r\nboolean\r\nWhether this disk is using confidential compute mode.\r\ndisks[].initializeParams.storagePool\r\nstring\r\nThe storage pool in which the new disk is created. You can provide this as a partial or full URL to the resource.\r\nFor example, the following are valid values:\r\nhttps://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/zones/zone/storagePools/storagePool\r\nprojects/project/zones/zone/storagePools/storagePool\r\nzones/zone/storagePools/storagePool\r\ndisks[].autoDelete\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 17 of 40\n\nboolean\r\nSpecifies whether the disk will be auto-deleted when the instance is deleted (but not when the disk is detached\r\nfrom the instance).\r\ndisks[].licenses[]\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Any valid publicly visible licenses.\r\ndisks[].interface\r\nenum\r\nSpecifies the disk interface to use for attaching this disk, which is either SCSI or NVME . For most machine\r\ntypes, the default is SCSI . Local SSDs can use either NVME or SCSI. In certain configurations, persistent disks\r\ncan use NVMe. For more information, see About persistent disks.\r\ndisks[].guestOsFeatures[]\r\nobject\r\nA list of features to enable on the guest operating system. Applicable only for bootable images. Read Enabling\r\nguest operating system features to see a list of available options.\r\ndisks[].guestOsFeatures[].type\r\nenum\r\nThe ID of a supported feature. To add multiple values, use commas to separate values. Set to one or more of the\r\nfollowing values:\r\nVIRTIO_SCSI_MULTIQUEUE\r\nWINDOWS\r\nMULTI_IP_SUBNET\r\nUEFI_COMPATIBLE\r\nGVNIC\r\nSEV_CAPABLE\r\nSUSPEND_RESUME_COMPATIBLE\r\nSEV_LIVE_MIGRATABLE_V2\r\nSEV_SNP_CAPABLE\r\nTDX_CAPABLE\r\nIDPF\r\nSNP_SVSM_CAPABLE\r\nCCA_CAPABLE\r\nFor more information, see Enabling guest operating system features. disks[].diskEncryptionKey\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 18 of 40\n\nobject\r\nEncrypts or decrypts a disk using a customer-supplied encryption key.\r\nIf you are creating a new disk, this field encrypts the new disk using an encryption key that you provide. If you are\r\nattaching an existing disk that is already encrypted, this field decrypts the disk using the customer-supplied\r\nencryption key.\r\nIf you encrypt a disk using a customer-supplied key, you must provide the same key again when you attempt to\r\nuse this resource at a later time. For example, you must provide the key when you create a snapshot or an image\r\nfrom the disk or when you attach the disk to a virtual machine instance.\r\nIf you do not provide an encryption key, then the disk will be encrypted using an automatically generated key and\r\nyou do not need to provide a key to use the disk later.\r\nNote:\r\nInstance templates do not store customer-supplied encryption keys, so you cannot use your own keys to encrypt\r\ndisks in a managed instance group.\r\nYou cannot create VMs that have disks with customer-supplied keys using the bulk insert method.\r\ndisks[].diskEncryptionKey.rawKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies a 256-bit customer-supplied encryption key, encoded in RFC 4648 base64 to either encrypt or decrypt\r\nthis resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rawKey\": \"SGVsbG8gZnJvbSBHb29nbGUgQ2xvdWQgUGxhdGZvcm0=\"\r\ndisks[].diskEncryptionKey.rsaEncryptedKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies an RFC 4648 base64 encoded, RSA-wrapped 2048-bit customer-supplied encryption key to either\r\nencrypt or decrypt this resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rsaEncryptedKey\": \"ieCx/NcW06PcT7Ep1X6LUTc/hLvUDYyzSZPPVCVPTVEohpeHASqC8uw5TzyO9U+Fka9JFH z0mBibXUIn\r\nThe key must meet the following requirements before you can provide it to Compute Engine:\r\n1. The key is wrapped using a RSA public key certificate provided by Google.\r\n2. After being wrapped, the key must be encoded in RFC 4648 base64 encoding.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 19 of 40\n\nGets the RSA public key certificate provided by Google at:\r\n https://cloud-certs.storage.googleapis.com/google-cloud-csek-ingress.pem\r\ndisks[].diskEncryptionKey.kmsKeyName\r\nstring\r\nThe name of the encryption key that is stored in Google Cloud KMS. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key\r\nThe fully-qualifed key name may be returned for resource GET requests. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key /crypto\r\ndisks[].diskEncryptionKey.sha256\r\nstring\r\n[Output only] The RFC 4648 base64 encoded SHA-256 hash of the customer-supplied encryption key that\r\nprotects this resource.\r\ndisks[].diskEncryptionKey.kmsKeyServiceAccount\r\nstring\r\nThe service account being used for the encryption request for the given KMS key. If absent, the Compute Engine\r\ndefault service account is used. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyServiceAccount\": \"name@ projectId.iam.gserviceaccount.com/\r\ndisks[].diskSizeGb\r\nstring (int64 format)\r\nThe size of the disk in GB.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState\r\nobject\r\n[Output Only] shielded vm initial state stored on disk\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.pk\r\nobject\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 20 of 40\n\nThe Platform Key (PK).\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.pk.content\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nThe raw content in the secure keys file.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.pk.fileType\r\nenum\r\nThe file type of source file.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.keks[]\r\nobject\r\nThe Key Exchange Key (KEK).\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.keks[].content\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nThe raw content in the secure keys file.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.keks[].fileType\r\nenum\r\nThe file type of source file.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.dbs[]\r\nobject\r\nThe Key Database (db).\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.dbs[].content\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nThe raw content in the secure keys file.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.dbs[].fileType\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 21 of 40\n\nenum\r\nThe file type of source file.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.dbxs[]\r\nobject\r\nThe forbidden key database (dbx).\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.dbxs[].content\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nThe raw content in the secure keys file.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\ndisks[].shieldedInstanceInitialState.dbxs[].fileType\r\nenum\r\nThe file type of source file.\r\ndisks[].forceAttach\r\nboolean\r\n[Input Only] Whether to force attach the regional disk even if it's currently attached to another instance. If you try\r\nto force attach a zonal disk to an instance, you will receive an error.\r\ndisks[].architecture\r\nenum\r\n[Output Only] The architecture of the attached disk. Valid values are ARM64 or X86_64.\r\nmetadata\r\nobject\r\nThe metadata key/value pairs assigned to this instance. This includes metadata keys that were explicitly defined\r\nfor the instance.\r\nmetadata.kind\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#metadata for metadata.\r\nmetadata.fingerprint\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 22 of 40\n\nstring (bytes format)\r\nSpecifies a fingerprint for this request, which is essentially a hash of the metadata's contents and used for\r\noptimistic locking. The fingerprint is initially generated by Compute Engine and changes after every request to\r\nmodify or update metadata. You must always provide an up-to-date fingerprint hash in order to update or change\r\nmetadata, otherwise the request will fail with error 412 conditionNotMet .\r\nTo see the latest fingerprint, make a get() request to retrieve the resource.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\nmetadata.items[]\r\nobject\r\nArray of key/value pairs. The total size of all keys and values must be less than 512 KB.\r\nmetadata.items[].key\r\nstring\r\nKey for the metadata entry. Keys must conform to the following regexp: [a-zA-Z0-9-_]+ , and be less than 128\r\nbytes in length. This is reflected as part of a URL in the metadata server. Additionally, to avoid ambiguity, keys\r\nmust not conflict with any other metadata keys for the project.\r\nmetadata.items[].value\r\nstring\r\nValue for the metadata entry. These are free-form strings, and only have meaning as interpreted by the image\r\nrunning in the instance. The only restriction placed on values is that their size must be less than or equal to 262144\r\nbytes (256 KiB).\r\nserviceAccounts[]\r\nobject\r\nA list of service accounts, with their specified scopes, authorized for this instance. Only one service account per\r\nVM instance is supported.\r\nService accounts generate access tokens that can be accessed through the metadata server and used to authenticate\r\napplications on the instance. See Service Accounts for more information.\r\nserviceAccounts[].email\r\nstring\r\nEmail address of the service account.\r\nserviceAccounts[].scopes[]\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 23 of 40\n\nstring\r\nThe list of scopes to be made available for this service account.\r\nselfLink\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Server-defined URL for this resource.\r\nscheduling\r\nobject\r\nSets the scheduling options for this instance.\r\nscheduling.maxRunDuration\r\nobject\r\nSpecifies the max run duration for the given instance. If specified, the instance termination action will be\r\nperformed at the end of the run duration.\r\nscheduling.maxRunDuration.seconds\r\nstring (int64 format)\r\nSpan of time at a resolution of a second. Must be from 0 to 315,576,000,000 inclusive. Note: these bounds are\r\ncomputed from: 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 10000 years\r\nscheduling.maxRunDuration.nanos\r\ninteger\r\nSpan of time that's a fraction of a second at nanosecond resolution. Durations less than one second are represented\r\nwith a 0 seconds field and a positive nanos field. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.\r\nscheduling.terminationTime\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies the timestamp, when the instance will be terminated, in RFC3339 text format. If specified, the instance\r\ntermination action will be performed at the termination time.\r\nscheduling.onInstanceStopAction\r\nobject\r\nscheduling.onInstanceStopAction.discardLocalSsd\r\nboolean\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 24 of 40\n\nIf true, the contents of any attached Local SSD disks will be discarded else, the Local SSD data will be preserved\r\nwhen the instance is stopped at the end of the run duration/termination time.\r\nscheduling.onHostMaintenance\r\nenum\r\nDefines the maintenance behavior for this instance. For standard instances, the default behavior is MIGRATE . For\r\npreemptible instances, the default and only possible behavior is TERMINATE . For more information, see Set VM\r\nhost maintenance policy.\r\nscheduling.automaticRestart\r\nboolean\r\nSpecifies whether the instance should be automatically restarted if it is terminated by Compute Engine (not\r\nterminated by a user). You can only set the automatic restart option for standard instances. Preemptible instances\r\ncannot be automatically restarted.\r\nBy default, this is set to true so an instance is automatically restarted if it is terminated by Compute Engine.\r\nscheduling.preemptible\r\nboolean\r\nDefines whether the instance is preemptible. This can only be set during instance creation or while the instance is\r\nstopped and therefore, in a TERMINATED state. See Instance Life Cycle for more information on the possible\r\ninstance states.\r\nscheduling.nodeAffinities[]\r\nobject\r\nA set of node affinity and anti-affinity configurations. Refer to Configuring node affinity for more information.\r\nOverrides reservationAffinity.\r\nscheduling.nodeAffinities[].key\r\nstring\r\nCorresponds to the label key of Node resource.\r\nscheduling.nodeAffinities[].operator\r\nenum\r\nDefines the operation of node selection. Valid operators are IN for affinity and NOT_IN for anti-affinity.\r\nscheduling.nodeAffinities[].values[]\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 25 of 40\n\nstring\r\nCorresponds to the label values of Node resource.\r\nscheduling.minNodeCpus\r\ninteger\r\nThe minimum number of virtual CPUs this instance will consume when running on a sole-tenant node.\r\nscheduling.locationHint\r\nstring\r\nAn opaque location hint used to place the instance close to other resources. This field is for use by internal tools\r\nthat use the public API.\r\nscheduling.availabilityDomain\r\ninteger\r\nSpecifies the availability domain to place the instance in. The value must be a number between 1 and the number\r\nof availability domains specified in the spread placement policy attached to the instance.\r\nscheduling.provisioningModel\r\nenum\r\nSpecifies the provisioning model of the instance.\r\nscheduling.instanceTerminationAction\r\nenum\r\nSpecifies the termination action for the instance.\r\nscheduling.hostErrorTimeoutSeconds\r\ninteger\r\nSpecify the time in seconds for host error detection, the value must be within the range of [90, 330] with the\r\nincrement of 30, if unset, the default behavior of host error recovery will be used.\r\nscheduling.localSsdRecoveryTimeout\r\nobject\r\nSpecifies the maximum amount of time a Local Ssd Vm should wait while recovery of the Local Ssd state is\r\nattempted. Its value should be in between 0 and 168 hours with hour granularity and the default value being 1\r\nhour.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 26 of 40\n\nscheduling.localSsdRecoveryTimeout.seconds\r\nstring (int64 format)\r\nSpan of time at a resolution of a second. Must be from 0 to 315,576,000,000 inclusive. Note: these bounds are\r\ncomputed from: 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 10000 years\r\nscheduling.localSsdRecoveryTimeout.nanos\r\ninteger\r\nSpan of time that's a fraction of a second at nanosecond resolution. Durations less than one second are represented\r\nwith a 0 seconds field and a positive nanos field. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.\r\nscheduling.skipGuestOsShutdown\r\nboolean\r\nDefault is false and there will be 120 seconds between GCE ACPI G2 Soft Off and ACPI G3 Mechanical Off for\r\nStandard VMs and 30 seconds for Spot VMs.\r\ncpuPlatform\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The CPU platform used by this instance.\r\nlabels\r\nmap (key: string, value: string)\r\nLabels to apply to this instance. These can be later modified by the setLabels method.\r\nparams\r\nobject\r\nInput only. [Input Only] Additional params passed with the request, but not persisted as part of resource payload.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\nparams.resourceManagerTags\r\nmap (key: string, value: string)\r\nInput only. Resource manager tags to be bound to the instance. Tag keys and values have the same definition as\r\nresource manager tags. Keys and values can be either in numeric format, such as tagKeys/{tag_key_id} and\r\ntagValues/456 or in namespaced format such as {org_id|projectId}/{tag_key_short_name} and\r\n{tag_value_short_name} . The field is ignored (both PUT \u0026 PATCH) when empty.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 27 of 40\n\nparams.requestValidForDuration\r\nobject\r\nRelative deadline for waiting for capacity. Relevant only for Instances.Insert API.\r\nparams.requestValidForDuration.seconds\r\nstring (int64 format)\r\nSpan of time at a resolution of a second. Must be from 0 to 315,576,000,000 inclusive. Note: these bounds are\r\ncomputed from: 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 10000 years\r\nparams.requestValidForDuration.nanos\r\ninteger\r\nSpan of time that's a fraction of a second at nanosecond resolution. Durations less than one second are represented\r\nwith a 0 seconds field and a positive nanos field. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999 inclusive.\r\nlabelFingerprint\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nA fingerprint for this request, which is essentially a hash of the label's contents and used for optimistic locking.\r\nThe fingerprint is initially generated by Compute Engine and changes after every request to modify or update\r\nlabels. You must always provide an up-to-date fingerprint hash in order to update or change labels.\r\nTo see the latest fingerprint, make get() request to the instance.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\ninstanceEncryptionKey\r\nobject\r\nEncrypts suspended data for an instance with a customer-managed encryption key.\r\nIf you are creating a new instance, this field will encrypt the local SSD and in-memory contents of the instance\r\nduring the suspend operation.\r\nIf you do not provide an encryption key when creating the instance, then the local SSD and in-memory contents\r\nwill be encrypted using an automatically generated key during the suspend operation.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\ninstanceEncryptionKey.rawKey\r\nstring\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 28 of 40\n\nSpecifies a 256-bit customer-supplied encryption key, encoded in RFC 4648 base64 to either encrypt or decrypt\r\nthis resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rawKey\": \"SGVsbG8gZnJvbSBHb29nbGUgQ2xvdWQgUGxhdGZvcm0=\"\r\ninstanceEncryptionKey.rsaEncryptedKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies an RFC 4648 base64 encoded, RSA-wrapped 2048-bit customer-supplied encryption key to either\r\nencrypt or decrypt this resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rsaEncryptedKey\": \"ieCx/NcW06PcT7Ep1X6LUTc/hLvUDYyzSZPPVCVPTVEohpeHASqC8uw5TzyO9U+Fka9JFH z0mBibXUIn\r\nThe key must meet the following requirements before you can provide it to Compute Engine:\r\n1. The key is wrapped using a RSA public key certificate provided by Google.\r\n2. After being wrapped, the key must be encoded in RFC 4648 base64 encoding.\r\nGets the RSA public key certificate provided by Google at:\r\n https://cloud-certs.storage.googleapis.com/google-cloud-csek-ingress.pem\r\ninstanceEncryptionKey.kmsKeyName\r\nstring\r\nThe name of the encryption key that is stored in Google Cloud KMS. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key\r\nThe fully-qualifed key name may be returned for resource GET requests. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key /crypto\r\ninstanceEncryptionKey.sha256\r\nstring\r\n[Output only] The RFC 4648 base64 encoded SHA-256 hash of the customer-supplied encryption key that\r\nprotects this resource.\r\ninstanceEncryptionKey.kmsKeyServiceAccount\r\nstring\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 29 of 40\n\nThe service account being used for the encryption request for the given KMS key. If absent, the Compute Engine\r\ndefault service account is used. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyServiceAccount\": \"name@ projectId.iam.gserviceaccount.com/\r\nminCpuPlatform\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies a minimum CPU platform for the VM instance. Applicable values are the friendly names of CPU\r\nplatforms, such as minCpuPlatform: \"Intel Haswell\" or minCpuPlatform: \"Intel Sandy Bridge\" .\r\nguestAccelerators[]\r\nobject\r\nA list of the type and count of accelerator cards attached to the instance.\r\nguestAccelerators[].acceleratorType\r\nstring\r\nFull or partial URL of the accelerator type resource to attach to this instance. For example: projects/my-project/zones/us-central1-c/acceleratorTypes/nvidia-tesla-p100 If you are creating an instance template,\r\nspecify only the accelerator name. See GPUs on Compute Engine for a full list of accelerator types.\r\nguestAccelerators[].acceleratorCount\r\ninteger\r\nThe number of the guest accelerator cards exposed to this instance.\r\nstartRestricted\r\nboolean\r\n[Output Only] Whether a VM has been restricted for start because Compute Engine has detected suspicious\r\nactivity.\r\ndeletionProtection\r\nboolean\r\nWhether the resource should be protected against deletion.\r\nresourcePolicies[]\r\nstring\r\nResource policies applied to this instance.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 30 of 40\n\nsourceMachineImage\r\nstring\r\nSource machine image\r\nreservationAffinity\r\nobject\r\nSpecifies the reservations that this instance can consume from.\r\nreservationAffinity.consumeReservationType\r\nenum\r\nSpecifies the type of reservation from which this instance can consume resources: ANY_RESERVATION (default),\r\nSPECIFIC_RESERVATION , or NO_RESERVATION . See Consuming reserved instances for examples.\r\nreservationAffinity.key\r\nstring\r\nCorresponds to the label key of a reservation resource. To target a SPECIFIC_RESERVATION by name, specify\r\ngoogleapis.com/reservation-name as the key and specify the name of your reservation as its value.\r\nreservationAffinity.values[]\r\nstring\r\nCorresponds to the label values of a reservation resource. This can be either a name to a reservation in the same\r\nproject or \"projects/different-project/reservations/some-reservation-name\" to target a shared reservation in the\r\nsame zone but in a different project.\r\nhostname\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies the hostname of the instance. The specified hostname must be RFC1035 compliant. If hostname is not\r\nspecified, the default hostname is [INSTANCE_NAME].c.[PROJECT_ID].internal when using the global DNS,\r\nand [INSTANCE_NAME].[ZONE].c.[PROJECT_ID].internal when using zonal DNS.\r\ndisplayDevice\r\nobject\r\nEnables display device for the instance.\r\ndisplayDevice.enableDisplay\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 31 of 40\n\nboolean\r\nDefines whether the instance has Display enabled.\r\nshieldedInstanceConfig\r\nobject\r\nshieldedInstanceConfig.enableSecureBoot\r\nboolean\r\nDefines whether the instance has Secure Boot enabled. Disabled by default.\r\nshieldedInstanceConfig.enableVtpm\r\nboolean\r\nDefines whether the instance has the vTPM enabled. Enabled by default.\r\nshieldedInstanceConfig.enableIntegrityMonitoring\r\nboolean\r\nDefines whether the instance has integrity monitoring enabled. Enabled by default.\r\nshieldedInstanceIntegrityPolicy\r\nobject\r\nshieldedInstanceIntegrityPolicy.updateAutoLearnPolicy\r\nboolean\r\nUpdates the integrity policy baseline using the measurements from the VM instance's most recent boot.\r\nsourceMachineImageEncryptionKey\r\nobject\r\nSource machine image encryption key when creating an instance from a machine image.\r\nsourceMachineImageEncryptionKey.rawKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies a 256-bit customer-supplied encryption key, encoded in RFC 4648 base64 to either encrypt or decrypt\r\nthis resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 32 of 40\n\n\"rawKey\": \"SGVsbG8gZnJvbSBHb29nbGUgQ2xvdWQgUGxhdGZvcm0=\"\r\nsourceMachineImageEncryptionKey.rsaEncryptedKey\r\nstring\r\nSpecifies an RFC 4648 base64 encoded, RSA-wrapped 2048-bit customer-supplied encryption key to either\r\nencrypt or decrypt this resource. You can provide either the rawKey or the rsaEncryptedKey . For example:\r\n\"rsaEncryptedKey\": \"ieCx/NcW06PcT7Ep1X6LUTc/hLvUDYyzSZPPVCVPTVEohpeHASqC8uw5TzyO9U+Fka9JFH z0mBibXUIn\r\nThe key must meet the following requirements before you can provide it to Compute Engine:\r\n1. The key is wrapped using a RSA public key certificate provided by Google.\r\n2. After being wrapped, the key must be encoded in RFC 4648 base64 encoding.\r\nGets the RSA public key certificate provided by Google at:\r\n https://cloud-certs.storage.googleapis.com/google-cloud-csek-ingress.pem\r\nsourceMachineImageEncryptionKey.kmsKeyName\r\nstring\r\nThe name of the encryption key that is stored in Google Cloud KMS. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key\r\nThe fully-qualifed key name may be returned for resource GET requests. For example:\r\n\"kmsKeyName\": \"projects/ kms_project_id/locations/ region/keyRings/ key_region/cryptoKeys/key /crypto\r\nsourceMachineImageEncryptionKey.sha256\r\nstring\r\n[Output only] The RFC 4648 base64 encoded SHA-256 hash of the customer-supplied encryption key that\r\nprotects this resource.\r\nsourceMachineImageEncryptionKey.kmsKeyServiceAccount\r\nstring\r\nThe service account being used for the encryption request for the given KMS key. If absent, the Compute Engine\r\ndefault service account is used. For example:\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 33 of 40\n\n\"kmsKeyServiceAccount\": \"name@ projectId.iam.gserviceaccount.com/\r\nconfidentialInstanceConfig\r\nobject\r\nconfidentialInstanceConfig.enableConfidentialCompute\r\nboolean\r\nDefines whether the instance should have confidential compute enabled.\r\nconfidentialInstanceConfig.confidentialInstanceType\r\nenum\r\nDefines the type of technology used by the confidential instance.\r\nfingerprint\r\nstring (bytes format)\r\nSpecifies a fingerprint for this resource, which is essentially a hash of the instance's contents and used for\r\noptimistic locking. The fingerprint is initially generated by Compute Engine and changes after every request to\r\nmodify or update the instance. You must always provide an up-to-date fingerprint hash in order to update the\r\ninstance.\r\nTo see the latest fingerprint, make get() request to the instance.\r\nA base64-encoded string.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\nprivateIpv6GoogleAccess\r\nenum\r\nThe private IPv6 google access type for the VM. If not specified, use INHERIT_FROM_SUBNETWORK as default.\r\nadvancedMachineFeatures\r\nobject\r\nControls for advanced machine-related behavior features.\r\nadvancedMachineFeatures.enableNestedVirtualization\r\nboolean\r\nWhether to enable nested virtualization or not (default is false).\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 34 of 40\n\nadvancedMachineFeatures.threadsPerCore\r\ninteger\r\nThe number of threads per physical core. To disable simultaneous multithreading (SMT) set this to 1. If unset, the\r\nmaximum number of threads supported per core by the underlying processor is assumed.\r\nadvancedMachineFeatures.visibleCoreCount\r\ninteger\r\nThe number of physical cores to expose to an instance. Multiply by the number of threads per core to compute the\r\ntotal number of virtual CPUs to expose to the instance. If unset, the number of cores is inferred from the instance's\r\nnominal CPU count and the underlying platform's SMT width.\r\nadvancedMachineFeatures.enableUefiNetworking\r\nboolean\r\nWhether to enable UEFI networking for instance creation.\r\nadvancedMachineFeatures.performanceMonitoringUnit\r\nenum\r\nType of Performance Monitoring Unit requested on instance.\r\nadvancedMachineFeatures.turboMode\r\nstring\r\nTurbo frequency mode to use for the instance. Supported modes include: * ALL_CORE_MAX\r\nUsing empty string or not setting this field will use the platform-specific default turbo mode.\r\nlastStartTimestamp\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Last start timestamp in RFC3339 text format.\r\nlastStopTimestamp\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] Last stop timestamp in RFC3339 text format.\r\nlastSuspendedTimestamp\r\nstring\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 35 of 40\n\n[Output Only] Last suspended timestamp in RFC3339 text format.\r\nsatisfiesPzs\r\nboolean\r\n[Output Only] Reserved for future use.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\nsatisfiesPzi\r\nboolean\r\n[Output Only] Reserved for future use.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\nresourceStatus\r\nobject\r\n[Output Only] Specifies values set for instance attributes as compared to the values requested by user in the\r\ncorresponding input only field.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata\r\nobject\r\n[Output Only] Effective metadata is a field that consolidates project, zonal instance settings, and instance-level\r\npredefined metadata keys to provide the overridden value for those metadata keys at the instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.vmDnsSettingMetadataValue\r\nstring\r\nEffective VM DNS setting at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.enableOsloginMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective enable-oslogin value at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.enableOsconfigMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective enable-osconfig value at Instance level.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 36 of 40\n\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.enableOsInventoryMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective enable-os-inventory value at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.enableGuestAttributesMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective enable-guest-attributes value at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.blockProjectSshKeysMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective block-project-ssh-keys value at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.serialPortEnableMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective serial-port-enable value at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.serialPortLoggingEnableMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective serial-port-logging-enable value at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.effectiveInstanceMetadata.gceContainerDeclarationMetadataValue\r\nboolean\r\nEffective gce-container-declaration value at Instance level.\r\nresourceStatus.scheduling\r\nobject\r\nresourceStatus.scheduling.availabilityDomain\r\ninteger\r\nSpecifies the availability domain to place the instance in. The value must be a number between 1 and the number\r\nof availability domains specified in the spread placement policy attached to the instance.\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance\r\nobject\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.type\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 37 of 40\n\nenum\r\nDefines the type of maintenance.\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.canReschedule\r\nboolean\r\nIndicates if the maintenance can be customer triggered.\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.windowStartTime\r\nstring\r\nThe current start time of the maintenance window. This timestamp value is in RFC3339 text format.\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.windowEndTime\r\nstring\r\nThe time by which the maintenance disruption will be completed. This timestamp value is in RFC3339 text\r\nformat.\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.latestWindowStartTime\r\nstring\r\nThe latest time for the planned maintenance window to start. This timestamp value is in RFC3339 text format.\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.maintenanceStatus\r\nenum\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.maintenanceOnShutdown\r\nboolean\r\nIndicates whether the UpcomingMaintenance will be triggered on VM shutdown.\r\nresourceStatus.upcomingMaintenance.maintenanceReasons[]\r\nenum\r\nThe reasons for the maintenance. Only valid for vms.\r\nresourceStatus.physicalHost\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The precise location of your instance within the zone's data center, including the block, sub-block,\r\nand host. The field is formatted as follows: blockId/subBlockId/hostId.\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 38 of 40\n\nresourceStatus.physicalHostTopology\r\nobject\r\n[Output Only] A series of fields containing the global name of the Compute Engine cluster, as well as the ID of the\r\nblock, sub-block, and host on which the running instance is located.\r\nresourceStatus.physicalHostTopology.cluster\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The global name of the Compute Engine cluster where the running instance is located.\r\nresourceStatus.physicalHostTopology.block\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The ID of the block in which the running instance is located. Instances within the same block\r\nexperience low network latency.\r\nresourceStatus.physicalHostTopology.subblock\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The ID of the sub-block in which the running instance is located. Instances in the same sub-block\r\nexperience lower network latency than instances in the same block.\r\nresourceStatus.physicalHostTopology.host\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The ID of the host on which the running instance is located. Instances on the same host experience\r\nthe lowest possible network latency.\r\nresourceStatus.reservationConsumptionInfo\r\nobject\r\n[Output Only] Reservation information that the instance is consuming from.\r\nresourceStatus.reservationConsumptionInfo.consumedReservation\r\nstring\r\n[Output Only] The full resource name of the reservation that this instance is consuming from.\r\nnetworkPerformanceConfig\r\nobject\r\nnetworkPerformanceConfig.totalEgressBandwidthTier\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 39 of 40\n\nenum\r\nkeyRevocationActionType\r\nenum\r\nKeyRevocationActionType of the instance. Supported options are \"STOP\" and \"NONE\". The default value is\r\n\"NONE\" if it is not specified.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\npartnerMetadata[]\r\nmap (key: string, value: object)\r\nPartner Metadata assigned to the instance. A map from a subdomain (namespace) to entries map.\r\nAvailable from 2026-03-01..\r\npartnerMetadata[].entries\r\nmap (key: string, value: value ( Value format))\r\nMap of a partner metadata that belong to the same subdomain. It accepts any value including\r\ngoogle.protobuf.Struct.\r\nworkloadIdentityConfig\r\nobject\r\nworkloadIdentityConfig.identity\r\nstring\r\nworkloadIdentityConfig.identityCertificateEnabled\r\nboolean\r\nSource: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nhttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances\r\nPage 40 of 40\n\nThe key must 1. The key meet the following is wrapped using requirements a RSA public before you can provide key certificate provided it to Compute by Google. Engine:\n2. 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