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Compute Engine	Get GCE instance's guest attributes

google_compute_instance_guest_attributes

Get information about a VM instance resource within GCE. For more information see the official documentation and API.

Get information about VM's guest attrubutes. For more information see the official documentation and API.

Example Usage - get all attributes from a single namespace

data "google_compute_instance_guest_attributes" "appserver_ga" {
  name       = "primary-application-server"
  zone       = "us-central1-a"
  query_path = "variables/"
}

Example Usage - get a specific variable

data "google_compute_instance_guest_attributes" "appserver_ga" {
  name         = "primary-application-server"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"
  variable_key = "variables/key1"
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• name - (Optional) The name or self_link of the instance.

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• project - (Optional) The ID of the project in which the resource belongs. If self_link is provided, this value is ignored. If neither self_link nor project are provided, the provider project is used.

• zone - (Optional) The zone of the instance. If self_link is provided, this value is ignored. If neither self_link nor zone are provided, the provider zone is used.

• query_path - (Optional) Path to query for the guest attributes. Consists of namespace name for the attributes followed with a /.

• variable_key - (Optional) Key of a variable to get the value of. Consists of namespace name and key name for the variable separated by a /.

Attributes Reference

• query_value - Structure is documented below.

• variable_value - Value of the queried guest_attribute.

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The query_value block supports:

• key - Key of the guest_attribute.

• namespace - Namespace of the guest_attribute.

• value - Value of the guest_attribute.