gcloud compute firewall-policies describe

NAME

gcloud compute firewall-policies describe - describe a Compute Engine organization firewall policy

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute firewall-policies describe FIREWALL_POLICY [--organization=ORGANIZATION] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud compute firewall-policies describe is used to describe organization firewall policies. An organization firewall policy is a set of rules that controls access to various resources.

EXAMPLES

To describe an organization firewall policy with ID ``123456789", run:

gcloud compute firewall-policies describe 123456789

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

FIREWALL_POLICY: Short name or ID of the firewall policy to describe.

FLAGS

--organization=ORGANIZATION: Organization in which the organization firewall policy is to be described. Must be set if FIREWALL_POLICY is short name.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity. Run $ gcloud help for details.

IAM PERMISSIONS

To describe a firewall policy, the user must have the following permission: compute.firewallPolicies.get.

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see the Compute Engine IAM roles.

NOTES

These variants are also available:

gcloud alpha compute firewall-policies describe

gcloud beta compute firewall-policies describe

gcloud preview compute firewall-policies describe

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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.