March 2019
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While project-wide metadata is useful for providing configurations for entire fleets of VMs, its model is not ideal for information that should be private to a specific subset of instances. For such cases, instance-specific metadata can be used. The instance-specific metadata of one VM cannot be viewed from other instances, and external access to the metadata server API does not expose instance-specific metadata.
Instance-specific metadata is controlled using the gcloud compute instances command group. All instance-specific metadata is available using the following command:
gcloud compute instances describe <INSTANCE>
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