- NAME
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- gcloud compute target-instances update - update a Compute Engine target instance
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud compute target-instances updateNAME[--security-policy=SECURITY_POLICY] [--security-policy-region=SECURITY_POLICY_REGION] [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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gcloud compute target-instances updateupdates a Compute Engine target instance. - EXAMPLES
- To update the security policy run this:
gcloud compute target-instances update TARGET_INSTANCE --security-policy = 'my-policy' - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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NAME - Name of the target instance to update.
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- FLAGS
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--security-policy=SECURITY_POLICY - The security policy that will be set for this target instance. To remove the policy from this target instance set the policy to an empty string.
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--security-policy-region=SECURITY_POLICY_REGION - Region of the security policy to operate on. Overrides the default
compute/regionproperty value for this command invocation. -
--zone=ZONE - Zone of the target instance to update. 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
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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
- These variants are also available:
gcloud alpha compute target-instances updategcloud beta compute target-instances updategcloud preview compute target-instances update
gcloud compute target-instances update
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.
