senthil kumar
What is the significance of metadata here while copying the log file to the GCS bucket.
I could have created directly using the below.
# And we copy that file to the bucket specified in the metadata.
echo "Copying the log file to the bucket..."
#gsutil cp "${worker_log_file}" "${worker_log_bucket}"
gsutil cp "${worker_log_file}" gs://gcpchal-logs-bucket/1 Answers
ben22
I think using the metadata in the startup script was simply to demonstrate that useful feature.
Mattias Andersson
Indeed! And I added a few more thoughts about this on Senthil’s other post: https://acloud.guru/forums/gcp-certified-associate-cloud-engineer/discussion/-LqsZNL4vomTqQgC-8PA/-1755-access-token-for-gsutil?answer=-LrL30P_2udKEc2Faec4
Using the metadat option allows you to pass in dynamic data to your script. What if you had 100 VMs each with their own bucket? Would you write 100 seperate scripts?