Problem:
You have a VM instance (my-instance in our example) for which you want to get the external or internal IP using the gcloud command line tool.
Solution:
If you just want to see the external IP of the instance (remember to replace my-instance by your instance name!), use
gcloud compute instances list --filter="name=my-instance" --format "[box]"
This will format the output nicely and show you more information about your instance. Example output:
┌─────────────┬────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │ NAME │ ZONE │ MACHINE_TYPE │ PREEMPTIBLE │ INTERNAL_IP │ EXTERNAL_IP │ STATUS │ ├─────────────┼────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │ my-instance │ europe-west3-c │ custom (16 vCPU, 32.00 GiB) │ │ 10.156.0.1 │ 35.207.77.101 │ RUNNING │ └─────────────┴────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
In this example, the external IP address is 35.207.77.101.
In case you want to see only the IP address, use this command instead:
gcloud compute instances list --filter="name=my-instance" --format "get(networkInterfaces[0].accessConfigs[0].natIP)"
Example output:
35.207.77.101
In order to see only the internal IP address (accessible only from Google Cloud), use
gcloud compute instances list --filter="name=my-instance" --format "get(networkInterfaces[0].networkIP)"
In the linux shell, the result of this command can easily be used as input to other commands. For example, to ping my-instance, use
ping $(gcloud compute instances list --filter="name=katc-main" --format "get(networkInterfaces[0].accessConfigs[0].natIP)")
Also see our related post How to find zone of Google Cloud VM instance on command line
In order to see what other information about instances you can see in a similar fashion, use
gcloud compute instances list --filter="name=my-instance" --format "text"