pcluster describe-cluster

Get detailed information about a cluster.

pcluster describe-cluster [-h] 
                 --cluster-name CLUSTER_NAME
                [--debug]
                [--query QUERY]
                [--region REGION]

Named arguments

-h, --help

Shows the help text for pcluster describe-cluster.

--cluster-name, -n CLUSTER_NAME

Specifies the name of the cluster.

--debug

Enables debug logging.

--query QUERY

Specifies the JMESPath query to perform on the output.

--region, -r REGION

Specifies the AWS Region to use. The AWS Region must be specified, using the AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable, the region setting in the [default] section of the ~/.aws/config file, or the --region parameter.

Examples using AWS ParallelCluster version 3.1.4:

Describe cluster details:

$ pcluster describe-cluster -n cluster-v3
{
  "creationTime": "2022-07-12T17:19:16.101Z",
  "headNode": {
    "launchTime": "2022-07-12T17:22:21.000Z",
    "instanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
    "publicIpAddress": "198.51.100.44",
    "instanceType": "t2.micro",
    "state": "running",
    "privateIpAddress": "192.0.2.0.196"
  },
  "version": "3.1.4",
  "clusterConfiguration": {
    "url": "https://parallelcluster-e5ca74255d6c3886-v1-do-not-delete..."
  },
  "tags": [
    {
      "value": "3.1.4",
      "key": "parallelcluster:version"
    }
  ],
  "cloudFormationStackStatus": "CREATE_COMPLETE",
  "clusterName": "cluster-v3",
  "computeFleetStatus": "RUNNING",
  "cloudformationStackArn": "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-1:123456789012:stack/cluster-v3/1234abcd-56ef-78gh-90ij-abcd1234efgh",
  "lastUpdatedTime": "2022-07-12T17:19:16.101Z",
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "clusterStatus": "CREATE_COMPLETE"
}

Use describe-cluster to retrieve the cluster configuration:

$ curl -o - $(pcluster describe-cluster -n cluster-v3 --query clusterConfiguration.url | xargs echo)
Region: us-east-1
Image:
  Os: alinux2
HeadNode:
  InstanceType: t2.micro
  Networking:
    SubnetId: subnet-abcdef01234567890
  Ssh:
    KeyName: adpc
  Iam:
    S3Access:
      - BucketName: cluster-v3-bucket
        KeyName: logs
        EnableWriteAccess: true
Scheduling:
  Scheduler: slurm
  SlurmQueues:
  - Name: queue1
    ComputeResources:
    - Name: t2micro
      InstanceType: t2.micro
      MinCount: 0
      MaxCount: 10
    Networking:
      SubnetIds:
      - subnet-021345abcdef6789