> This deployment needed to serve docker images on boot-up, which instance templates do support. However they don't support them via API, only in the web consol

> This deployment needed to serve docker images on boot-up, which instance templates do support. However they don't support them via API, only in the web console or the CLI. Not exactly true. I got around this limitation by sending a startup script[1] in API metadata which basically just does invokes `docker run ...` and it works just fine. This allows spinning up/down container-based VMs via API only which is nice. [1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/startup-scripts/linux https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/startup-scri...