This repository historically stored the collection of packages installed on Google supported Compute Engine images. Documentation here summarizes these packages and points to new locations for various software components.
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The Linux guest environment comprises the Google provided configuration and tooling inside of a Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machine. The metadata server is a communication channel for transferring information from a client into the guest. The Linux guest environment includes a set of scripts and daemons (long-running processes) that read the content of the metadata server to make a virtual machine run properly on our platform.
We build the following packages for the Linux guest environment.
google-compute-engine
(located in the guest-configs repo)google-compute-engine-oslogin
(located in the guest-oslogin repo)google-guest-agent
(located in the guest-agent repo)gce-disk-expand
(located in the guest-diskexpand repo)The legacy guest Python code is packaged as a compliant PyPI Python package that can be used as a library or run independently.
The deb and rpm packages are published to Google Cloud repositories. Debian, CentOS, and RHEL use these repositories to install and update the google-compute-engine
, google-compute-engine-oslogin
and google-guest-agent
packages. If you are creating a custom image, you can also use these repositories in your image.
For Debian, run the following commands as root:
Add the public repo key to your system:
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
Add a source list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud.list
and change DIST
to either stretch
for Debian 9 or buster
for Debian 10:
DIST=stretch sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud.list << EOM deb http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-compute-engine-${DIST}-stable main deb http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-cloud-packages-archive-keyring-${DIST} main EOM
Install the packages to maintain the public key over time:
sudo apt update; sudo apt install -y google-cloud-packages-archive-keyring
You are then able to install any of the packages from this repo.
For RedHat based distributions, run the following commands as root:
Add the yum repo to a repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud.repo
for EL6, EL7, or EL8. Change DIST
to either 6, 7, or 8 respectively:
DIST=7 tee /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud.repo << EOM [google-compute-engine] name=Google Compute Engine baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/google-compute-engine-el${DIST}-x86_64-stable enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 repo_gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg EOM
You are then able to install any of the packages from this repo.
Deprecated Package | Replacement |
---|---|
python-google-compute-engine | google-guest-agent |
python3-google-compute-engine | google-guest-agent |
google-compute-engine-jessie | google-compute-engine |
google-compute-engine-stretch | google-compute-engine |
google-compute-engine-init | google-compute-engine |
google-compute-engine-init-jessie | google-compute-engine |
google-compute-engine-init-stretch | google-compute-engine |
google-config | google-compute-engine |
google-config-jessie | google-compute-engine |
google-config-stretch | google-compute-engine |
google-compute-daemon | python-google-compute-engine |
google-startup-scripts | google-compute-engine |
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