Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Startup Failures on GCP

In this lesson, we’ll show you how to diagnose a virtual machine that fails to boot on Google Cloud Platform and what steps to take to fix it.

Learning Objectives

• Troubleshoot and fix a virtual machine that fails to boot on Google Cloud Platform 

Intended Audience

• Anyone who works with virtual machine instances on Google Cloud Platform

Prerequisites

• Basic experience using virtual machines on Google Cloud Platform (or go through one of our introductory GCP VM labs, such as Starting a Linux Virtual Machine on Google Compute Engine)