gcloud helpers

help.sh

# List all the VM for given project
gcloud compute instances list --format="text(name,zone.basename())"

# List all the VM for given project in table format with id
gcloud compute instances list --format="table(id, name,zone.basename())"

# List all the VM get only id for shell processing
gcloud compute instances list --format="csv[no-heading](id)"

# Get service account for given vm
gcloud compute instances describe test --zone us-west1-b --format='json(name,serviceAccounts)'

# Get the creator of VM by vm name
gcloud logging read 'resource.type="gce_instance" protoPayload.methodName:"compute.instances.insert" log_id("cloudaudit.googleapis.com/activity") protoPayload.request.name="test"' --format="list(protoPayload.response.user)"

# Get the creator of VM by vm id
gcloud logging read 'resource.type="gce_instance" protoPayload.methodName:"compute.instances.insert" log_id("cloudaudit.googleapis.com/activity") resource.labels.instance_id="YOUR_ID_HERE"' --format="list(protoPayload.response.user)"