Table: gcp_compute_zone - Query Google Cloud Compute Engine Zones using SQL

Google Cloud Compute Engine Zones are geographical locations where Google Cloud resources are deployed and managed. Each zone is a deployment area within a region and is designed to be isolated from failures in other zones. Zones are ideal for deploying high availability applications and for distributing resources to provide disaster recovery.

Table Usage Guide

The gcp_compute_zone table provides insights into the zones within Google Cloud Compute Engine. As a Cloud Engineer, you can explore zone-specific details through this table, including the zone's status, region, and available CPU platforms. Utilize it to manage resource allocation and distribution, and to plan for disaster recovery and high availability applications.

Examples

Compute zone basic info

Explore which zones within your Google Cloud Platform's compute engine are active and where they are located. This is useful for understanding the distribution and status of your compute resources.

select
  name,
  id,
  region_name,
  status
from
  gcp_compute_zone;

select
  name,
  id,
  region_name,
  status
from
  gcp_compute_zone;

Get the available cpu platforms in each zone

Determine the areas in which different CPU platforms are available in each zone to optimize resource allocation and performance.

select
  name,
  available_cpu_platforms
from
  gcp_compute_zone;

select
  name,
  available_cpu_platforms
from
  gcp_compute_zone;

Get the zones which are down

Explore which zones in your GCP Compute environment are currently down. This is useful for quickly identifying areas of your infrastructure that may be experiencing issues.

select
  name,
  id,
  region_name,
  status
from
  gcp_compute_zone
where
  status = 'DOWN';

select
  name,
  id,
  region_name,
  status
from
  gcp_compute_zone
where
  status = 'DOWN';

Schema for gcp_compute_zone

Name	Type	Operators	Description
_ctx	jsonb		Steampipe context in JSON form, e.g. connection_name.
akas	jsonb		Array of globally unique identifier strings (also known as) for the resource.
available_cpu_platforms	jsonb		Available cpu/platform selections for the zone.
description	text		Textual description of the resource.
id	text		The unique identifier for the zone.
kind	text		Type of the resource. Always compute#zone for zones.
location	text		The GCP multi-region, region, or zone in which the resource is located.
name	text	!=, =	The name of the zone.
project	text		The GCP Project in which the resource is located.
region	text		Full URL reference to the region which hosts the zone.
region_name	text		Region name which hosts the zone.
self_link	text		Server-defined URL for the zone.
status	text	!=, =	Status of the zone, either UP or DOWN.
title	text		Title of the resource.

Export

This table is available as a standalone Exporter CLI. Steampipe exporters are stand-alone binaries that allow you to extract data using Steampipe plugins without a database.

You can download the tarball for your platform from the Releases page, but it is simplest to install them with the steampipe_export_installer.sh script:

/bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://steampipe.io/install/export.sh)" -- gcp

You can pass the configuration to the command with the --config argument:

steampipe_export_gcp --config '<your_config>' gcp_compute_zone