gcloud compute target-pools

NAME

gcloud compute target-pools - control Compute Engine target pools for network load balancing

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute target-pools COMMAND [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

Control Compute Engine target pools for external passthrough Network Load Balancers.

For more information about target pools, see the target pools documentation.

See also: Target pools API.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --help.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

add-health-checks: Add a legacy HTTP health check to a target pool.
add-instances: Add instances to a target pool.
create: Define a load-balanced pool of virtual machine instances.
delete: Delete target pools.
describe: Describe a Compute Engine target pool.
get-health: Get the health of instances in a target pool.
list: List Google Compute Engine target pools.
remove-health-checks: Remove an HTTP health check from a target pool.
remove-instances: Remove instances from a target pool.
set-backup: Set a backup pool for a target pool.
update: Update a Compute Engine target pool.

NOTES

These variants are also available:

gcloud alpha compute target-pools

gcloud beta compute target-pools

gcloud preview compute target-pools

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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.