- NAME
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- gcloud beta compute target-pools add-instances - add instances to a target pool
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta compute target-pools add-instancesNAME--instances=INSTANCE, [INSTANCE, …] [--instances-zone=INSTANCES_ZONE] [--region=REGION] [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)gcloud beta compute target-pools add-instancesis used to add one or more instances to a target pool. For more information on health checks and load balancing, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing-and-autoscaling/ - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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NAME - The name of the target pool to which to add the instances.
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- REQUIRED FLAGS
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--instances=INSTANCE,[INSTANCE,…] - Specifies a list of instances to add to the target pool.
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- OPTIONAL FLAGS
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--instances-zone=INSTANCES_ZONE - Zone of the instances to add to the target pool. If not specified and the
compute/zoneTo avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the
compute/zonegcloud config set compute/zone ZONEA list of zones can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute zones listTo unset the property, run:
gcloud config unset compute/zoneAlternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable
CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE -
--region=REGION - Region of the target pool to operate on. If not specified, it will be set to the
region of the instances. Overrides the default
compute/regionproperty value for this command invocation. -
--zone=ZONE - Zone of the instances to add to the target pool. DEPRECATED, use
--instances-zone. If not specified, you will be prompted to select a zone.
Overrides the default
compute/zoneproperty value for this command invocation.
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- 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 helpfor details. - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud compute target-pools add-instancesgcloud alpha compute target-pools add-instancesgcloud preview compute target-pools add-instances
gcloud beta compute target-pools add-instances
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.
