If the vm is going to die, why bother killing it at all? Just “make it safe” and let gce kill it. Could you not just send a signal to the running process that

If the vm is going to die, why bother killing it at all? Just “make it safe” and let gce kill it. Could you not just send a signal to the running process that it’s going to die and to hang up or save state or whatever is needed? If an Ephemeral vm ends in a bad state does anyone care?