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gce_set_metadata {googleComputeEngineR}

R Documentation

Sets metadata for the specified instance or projectwise to the data included in the request.

Description

Set, change and append metadata for an instance.

Usage

gce_set_metadata(metadata, instance, project = gce_get_global_project(),
  zone = gce_get_global_zone())

Arguments

`metadata`	A named list of metadata key/value pairs to assign to this instance
`instance`	Name of the instance scoping this request. If "project-wide" will set the metadata project wide, available to all instances
`project`	Project ID for this request, default as set by gce_get_global_project
`zone`	The name of the zone for this request, default as set by gce_get_global_zone

Details

Authentication scopes used by this function are:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute

To append to existing metadata passed a named list.

To change existing metadata pass a named list with the same key and modified value you will change.

To delete metadata pass an empty string "" with the same key

Examples


## Not run: 
 # Use "project-wide" to set "enable-oslogin" = "TRUE" to take advantage of OS Login.
 # But you won't be able to login via SSH if you do
 gce_set_metadata(list("enable-oslogin" = "TRUE"), instance = "project-wide")
 
 # enable google logging
 gce_set_metadata(list("google-logging-enabled"="True"), instance = "project-wide")

## End(Not run)