Viewing output from startup scripts GCP Compute Engine

Read this post to understand the different ways to pass in a startup script to compute engine (using terraform)

To view metadata attributed set on the instance (e.g. foo=bar)

View the values of compute instance metadata
user@myinstance:~$ curl http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/foo -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google"
bar

Viewing startup script logs
Startup script output is written to the following log files:

• CentOS and RHEL: /var/log/messages
• Debian: /var/log/daemon.log
• Ubuntu: /var/log/syslog
• SLES: /var/log/messages

You can also use the journalctl command to view startup script output.

• sudo journalctl -u google-startup-scripts.service

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