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I am trying to set up an Instance using an Instance Template in the GCP Deployment Manager. It works fine but upon adding startup-script in metadata, it doesn't.

This is the code (and script) I am trying to run:

gcloud compute instances create my-instance --source-instance-template my-it --zone=northamerica-northeast1-a --network=my-network --subnet=my-subnet --no-address --metadata=startup-script='sudo /opt/scripts/startup.sh #! /bin/bash sudo htpasswd -c -B -b /etc/nginx/.htpasswd test test'

Here, the following part comes from the instance template itself and I am trying to add in the latter.

sudo /opt/scripts/startup.sh

Any help appreciated, thanks!

a_a_15
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    Assuming you are trying to deploy a VM and add a start up script from a local file > https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/linux#passing-local. You might want to double check the syntax ... --metadata-from-file=startup-script=sudo /opt/scripts/startup.sh – jningthou Apr 21 '22 at 21:06

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GCP documentation says that when creating a VM from an instance template, the default behavior is to create a VM instance precisely as described in the instance template except for the instance name and zone; if you want to override an attribute, you only need to pass the new value. Create a vm instance from an instance template with overrides

You can see from the documentation that gcloud compute instance-templates has the same --metadata and --metadata-from-file flags as gcloud compute instances gcloud compute instance-templates,gcloud compute instance create

So any new value to --metadata when creating a new instance with --source-instance-template=my_template will only override the value from the instance template (no adding). The --metadata-from-file flag maybe me more suitable for your use case( new .sh with the startup-script form instance template + extra steps)

paulina moreno
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