VM Manager is three separate services, one of which is "OS config management", which is more akin to Ansible (or Puppet, Chef, etc), i.e. provisioning software

VM Manager is three separate services, one of which is "OS config management", which is more akin to Ansible (or Puppet, Chef, etc), i.e. provisioning software on a system. The other two services look after themselves TBH. The OS config mangement in practice is a daemon that polls for "guest policies" every 10 minutes. Their example policies will give you a good idea of what it does: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/os-config-management/create-guest-policy#example-yaml https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/os-config-management/c... Or better still, the `google_os_config_guest_policies` terraform resource: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/os_config_guest_policies#example-usage---os-config-guest-policies-packages https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/lat... (Essentially it's pretty basic stuff: configuring package repos, installing packages, running scripts, and copying artefacts).