Google Cloud Platform - Compute Engine Bitnami Mean stack startup script

Question

I'm running a Bitnami MEAN instance and added a few lines to the startup script meta tag. I don't think it's running. I tailed the log files per the instructions here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/startupscript after adding some debug statements and I don't see any of my debug statements in the log. Does the startup-script commands not run on a bitnami vm??? Maybe it's overwritten somewhere for another script. I don't see it documented in the Bitnami docs.

I also ran the startup manually from a terminal

sudo google_metadata_script_runner --script-type startup

and it worked. So maybe Bitnami overrides the default startup script???

Answer 1

To check if the instance is bypassing startup scripts you can do the following:

1 Go to the VM instances page.

2 Click on the instance for which you want to add a startup script.

3 Click the Edit button at the top of the page.

4 Under Custom metadata, search for the following key:

If there are a startup-script key, then the instance is loading and executing startup scripts, and the problem is in how you are loaded the script.