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  Represents a TargetInstance resource which defines an endpoint instance
  that terminates traffic of certain protocols.
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# google\_compute\_target\_instance

Represents a TargetInstance resource which defines an endpoint instance
that terminates traffic of certain protocols. In particular, they are used
in Protocol Forwarding, where forwarding rules can send packets to a
non-NAT’ed target instance. Each target instance contains a single
virtual machine instance that receives and handles traffic from the
corresponding forwarding rules.


To get more information about TargetInstance, see:

* [API documentation](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/v1/targetInstances)
* How-to Guides
    * [Using Protocol Forwarding](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/protocol-forwarding)

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## Example Usage - Target Instance Basic


```hcl
resource "google_compute_target_instance" "default" {
  name        = "target"
  instance    = "${google_compute_instance.target-vm.self_link}"
}

data "google_compute_image" "vmimage" {
  family  = "debian-9"
  project = "debian-cloud"
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "target-vm" {
  name         = "target-vm"
  machine_type = "n1-standard-1"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params{
      image = "${data.google_compute_image.vmimage.self_link}"
    }
  }

  network_interface {
    network = "default"
  }
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:


* `name` -
  (Required)
  Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is
  created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with
  RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match
  the regular expression `[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?` which means the
  first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following
  characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last
  character, which cannot be a dash.

* `instance` -
  (Required)
  The Compute instance VM handling traffic for this target instance.
  Accepts the instance self-link, relative path
  (e.g. `projects/project/zones/zone/instances/instance`) or name. If
  name is given, the zone will default to the given zone or
  the provider-default zone and the project will default to the
  provider-level project.


- - -


* `description` -
  (Optional)
  An optional description of this resource.

* `nat_policy` -
  (Optional)
  NAT option controlling how IPs are NAT'ed to the instance.
  Currently only NO_NAT (default value) is supported.

* `zone` -
  (Optional)
  URL of the zone where the target instance resides.
* `project` - (Optional) The ID of the project in which the resource belongs.
    If it is not provided, the provider project is used.


## Attributes Reference

In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are exported:


* `creation_timestamp` -
  Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
* `self_link` - The URI of the created resource.


## Timeouts

This resource provides the following
[Timeouts](/docs/configuration/resources.html#timeouts) configuration options:

- `create` - Default is 4 minutes.
- `delete` - Default is 4 minutes.

## Import

TargetInstance can be imported using any of these accepted formats:

```
$ terraform import google_compute_target_instance.default projects/{{project}}/zones/{{zone}}/targetInstances/{{name}}
$ terraform import google_compute_target_instance.default {{project}}/{{zone}}/{{name}}
$ terraform import google_compute_target_instance.default {{name}}
```

-> If you're importing a resource with beta features, make sure to include `-provider=google-beta`
as an argument so that Terraform uses the correct provider to import your resource.