gce/Guestos Bootup Start

Fetches VM details and validates the instance state.

Product: Compute Engine
Step Type: START

Description

This step retrieves the VM instance details based on the provided project ID, zone, and instance name. It checks if the VM is running and updates the instance ID or name if missing. Additionally, it performs sanity checks on the provided serial console log files to ensure they are valid plain text files.

Failure Reason

The GCE Instance {full_resource_path} is in {status} state.

Failure Remediation

Restart VM {full_resource_path} and ensure VM lifecycle transitions from {status} to RUNNING.

You can restart a compute instance with this guide.

If you encounter any difficulties starting the VM, consult the VM Startup troubleshooting documentation to identify and resolve potential startup issues.

Success Reason

The GCE Instance {full_resource_path} is in {status} state.

Skipped Reason

Could not validate VM lifecycle.