Description: Change Before You Have To
Change Before You Have To
Assuming you create a remote instance named ‘fvm’ (free VM):
gcloud compute instances create fvm \ --image ubuntu-2004-focal-v20201211 \ --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \ --boot-disk-device-name=freedisk \ --boot-disk-size=30 \ --machine-type=f1-micro \ --zone=us-east1-b \ --boot-disk-type=pd-standard \ --metadata-from-file startup-script=startup_gcp_free.sh With the following start-up script, installing python 3.9 on the remote machine: