| ## Startup Script of Compute Engine |
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| 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. |
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| ### Create a virtual machine instance using startup script |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
| ``` |
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| Replace the following: |
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| `PROJECT_NAME`: the name of the project host the virtual machine instance |
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| `VM_NAME`: the name of the virtual machine instance |
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| `FILE_PATH`: the relative path to the startup script file |
