How to get OS type for GCP VM using gcloud command

Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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Command to get OS type of a GCP VM using gcloud command (without doing ssh).

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Hi,

you can do it with this:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/view-os-details#view-data-tool

using OS Inventory from VM Manager.

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if VM Manager is not enabled in the specific project , will gcloud command will work in that case to get os detail?

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If not using Vm Manager you can get closer to that with this:

gcloud compute instances describe instance-name | grep licenses

In that output string you can deduce what OS is used in the VM