How the VM instance set up on gcloud contains the fast.ai tutorials already?

Question

I am just about to start the fast.ai course and have followed the instruction to set up the VM instance on Google Compute Cloud. Surprisingly I found that when I started the instance and opened localhost:8080/tree, there is already a folder called tutorials that contains the course materials already.

My question is: how is this done through the instructions given by fast.ai? I thought only a VM with essential deep learning libraries would be set up by specifying --image-project=deeplearning-platform-release and --image-family="pytorch-latest-gpu".

Answer 1

I found the answer on a course forum thread.

The reason that the tutorials folder is already there is because

Google DL Image preinstalls them for you as demo.