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.TH "GCLOUD_ALPHA_COMPUTE_TARGET\-POOLS" 1



.SH "NAME"
.HP
gcloud alpha compute target\-pools \- control Compute Engine target pools for network load balancing



.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP
\f5gcloud alpha compute target\-pools\fR \fIGROUP\fR | \fICOMMAND\fR [\fIGCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG\ ...\fR]



.SH "DESCRIPTION"

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Control Compute Engine target pools for external passthrough
Network Load Balancers.

For more information about target pools, see the target pools documentation
(https://cloud.google.com/load\-balancing/docs/target\-pools).

See also: Target pools API
(https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/targetPools).



.SH "GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS"

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

Run \fB$ gcloud help\fR for details.



.SH "GROUPS"

\f5\fIGROUP\fR\fR is one of the following:

.RS 2m
.TP 2m
\fBconfig\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Manage Compute Engine target pool configurations.


.RE
.sp

.SH "COMMANDS"

\f5\fICOMMAND\fR\fR is one of the following:

.RS 2m
.TP 2m
\fBadd\-health\-checks\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Add a legacy HTTP health check to a target pool.

.TP 2m
\fBadd\-instances\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Add instances to a target pool.

.TP 2m
\fBcreate\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Define a load\-balanced pool of virtual machine instances.

.TP 2m
\fBdelete\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Delete target pools.

.TP 2m
\fBdescribe\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Describe a Compute Engine target pool.

.TP 2m
\fBget\-health\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Get the health of instances in a target pool.

.TP 2m
\fBlist\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR List Google Compute Engine target pools.

.TP 2m
\fBremove\-health\-checks\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Remove an HTTP health check from a target pool.

.TP 2m
\fBremove\-instances\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Remove instances from a target pool.

.TP 2m
\fBset\-backup\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Set a backup pool for a target pool.

.TP 2m
\fBupdate\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Update a Compute Engine target pool.


.RE
.sp

.SH "NOTES"

This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this
command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project,
you might be trying to access an API with an invitation\-only early access
allowlist. These variants are also available:

.RS 2m
$ gcloud compute target\-pools
.RE

.RS 2m
$ gcloud beta compute target\-pools
.RE