How to get OS type for GCP VM using gcloud command

[gcloudLearning]

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

[nestors]

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.

[gcloudLearning]

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

[nestors]

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