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How to make GCP VMs inventory in table format instead of JSON file?

I want to make a table in GCP that contains all VMs details, I try to use asset api but it export a JSON file which is not readable.

I want an approach to convert this unreadable JSON file to a readable table, or if there is any feature in GCP that allows us to make an inventory table for VMs in a readable way?

Solution

  • You can export your assets into BigQuery

    In my company, we perform this export every day with a scheduled Cloud Functions. The traps is that every day, the content of the table is overridden.

    So, 2 hours after the CLoud Functions scheduling, we have a BigQuery scheduled query that selects all the data of the asset inventory export and that inserts them into a partitioned table.

    And we request the assets that we want into this partitioned table.