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GCP Compute add startup-script to metadata

February 2, 2022

How to add a startup-script to metadata. The script executes every time VM is started.

gcloud compute instances add-metadata instance-name \
--project your-project-id \
--zone us-central1-c \
--metadata=startup-script='#! /bin/bash
sudo -i
echo "Time: $(date)" >> /tmp/date.txt'

gcloud compute instances add-metadata instance-name \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-c \ --metadata=startup-script='#! /bin/bash sudo -i echo "Time: $(date)" >> /tmp/date.txt'

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