Startup Script of Compute Engine

A startup script is a file that contains commands that run when a virtual machine instance boots. Compute Engine provides support for running startup scripts on Linux and Windows virtual machines.

Create a virtual machine instance using startup script

The startup-script.sh could be used as the startup script of a virtual machine instance which run Matter coverage report and publish the result via an App Engine service.

You can create a virtual machine instance by using the gcloud compute instances create command with the --metadata-from-file flag.

gcloud compute instances create VM_NAME \
  --image-project=PROJECT_NAME \
  --image-family=ubuntu-22.04 \
  --metadata-from-file=startup-script=FILE_PATH

Replace the following:

PROJECT_NAME: the name of the project host the virtual machine instance

VM_NAME: the name of the virtual machine instance

FILE_PATH: the relative path to the startup script file