How to reset your Google Compute Engine instance using gcutil's new resetinstance function.

gistfile1.txt

testuser@desktop:~/$ gcutil --project=google.com:testproject --format=json resetinstance --zone=us-central1-b test1
INFO: Waiting for reset of instance test1. Sleeping for 3s.
{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "9465765453221150149", 
      "insertTime": "2013-06-24T13:26:39.140-07:00", 
      "kind": "compute#operation", 
      "name": "operation-1372104599140-4dfec3be443a1-7b2e3d3e", 
      "operationType": "reset", 
      "progress": 100, 
      "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/google.com:test-compute/zones/us-central1-b/operations/operation-1372104599140-4dfec3be443a1-7b2e3d3e", 
      "startTime": "2013-06-24T13:26:39.216-07:00", 
      "status": "DONE", 
      "targetId": "1661082487669788126", 
      "targetLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/google.com:test-compute/zones/us-central1-b/instances/test1", 
      "user": "paulr-testuser@gmail.com", 
      "zone": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/google.com:test-compute/zones/us-central1-b"
    }, 
    {
      "canIpForward": false, 
      "creationTimestamp": "2013-06-24T13:06:03.336-07:00", 
      "description": "", 
      "disks": [
        {
          "index": 0, 
          "kind": "compute#attachedDisk", 
          "mode": "READ_WRITE", 
          "type": "SCRATCH"
        }
      ], 
      "id": "1661082487669788126", 
      "image": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/debian-cloud/global/images/debian-7-wheezy-v20130617", 
      "kind": "compute#instance", 
      "machineType": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/google.com:test-compute/zones/us-central1-b/machineTypes/n1-standard-1", 
      "metadata": {
        "fingerprint": "42TrSpB8rSM=", 
        "kind": "compute#metadata"
      }, 
      "name": "test1", 
      "networkInterfaces": [
        {
          "accessConfigs": [
            {
              "kind": "compute#accessConfig", 
              "name": "External NAT", 
              "natIP": "192.168.Y.Y", 
              "type": "ONE_TO_ONE_NAT"
            }
          ], 
          "name": "nic0", 
          "network": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/google.com:test-compute/global/networks/default", 
          "networkIP": "10.240.X.X"
        }
      ], 
      "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/google.com:test-compute/zones/us-central1-b/instances/test1", 
      "status": "RUNNING", 
      "tags": {
        "fingerprint": "42TrSpB8rSM="
      }, 
      "zone": "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1beta15/projects/google.com:test-compute/zones/us-central1-b"
    }
  ], 
  "kind": "compute#operationList", 
  "note": "This JSON result is based on multiple API calls. This object was created in the client."
}