On Compute Engine you can manage the operating systems that are running on your virtual machines (VMs) by using VM Manager.
This page describes how to upgrade an existing setup of VM Manager. Google recommends that you use the latest version of the agent.
Before you begin
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If you haven't already, set up authentication.
Authentication is
the process by which your identity is verified for access to Google Cloud services and APIs.
To run code or samples from a local development environment, you can authenticate to
Compute Engine as follows.
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Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:
gcloud init
- Set a default region and zone.
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Overview
To update your VM Manager setup, complete the following steps:
- Check the current version of the OS Config agent that is installed
on your VMs. For more information about the OS Config agent versions,
see the
GoogleCloudPlatform/osconfig
GitHub repository.
- To use OS inventory management, your VM must be running an
OS Config agent version dated
20201110
or later - To use OS policies, your VM must be running an
OS Config agent version dated
20210427
or later.
- To use OS inventory management, your VM must be running an
OS Config agent version dated
- If the version of your OS config agent does not support the new features, update the OS Config agent.
View OS Config agent version
If you have OS inventory management (earlier version) running on your VMs, you can check the OS Config agent version by running the following command:
gcloud compute instances os-inventory describe VM-NAME \ --zone=ZONE
Replace the following:
VM-NAME
: the name of your VMZONE
: the zone where the VM is located
In the output, search for OSConfigAgentVersion
.
OSConfigAgentVersion: 20210316.00-g1
In the preceding output snippet, the OS Config agent version is dated 20210316
(2021-03-16).
Update the OS Config agent
To update the OS Config agent, do one of the following:
- Update the package for your operating system
- Run a patch job
Update OS packages
One method of updating the OS Config agent is to update the package for your operating system.
CentOS/RHEL/Rocky
To update the agent on CentOS, Rocky Linux, and RHEL operating systems, run the following command:
sudo yum update google-osconfig-agent
Debian
To update the agent on Debian operating systems, run the following commands:
sudo apt update sudo apt install google-osconfig-agent
SLES
To update the agent on SLES, run the following command:
sudo zypper -n update google-osconfig-agent
To update the agent on SLES VMs, you can also do a reinstall of the agent using the Google-provided packages. To do an install using Google-provided packages, see Install the OS Config agent.
Ubuntu
To update the agent on Ubuntu operating systems, run the following commands:
sudo apt update sudo apt install google-osconfig-agent
To update the agent on Ubuntu VMs, we recommend that you do a reinstall of the agent using the Google-provided packages. To do an install using Google-provided packages, see Install the OS Config agent.
Windows
To update the agent on Windows operating systems, run the following command:
googet install google-osconfig-agent
Run a patch job
Another method of updating the OS Config agent is by running a patch job and
specifying the exclusive_packages
flag. This patch job only updates the OS
Config agent on the target VMs.
To set the target VMs, you need to specify an INSTANCE_FILTER
.
For more information about instance filters,
see instance filters.
CentOS/RHEL/Rocky
To update the agent for CentOS, Rocky Linux and RHEL VMs, run the following command:
gcloud compute os-config patch-jobs execute INSTANCE_FILTER \ --yum-exclusive-packages=google-osconfig-agent
Debian
To update the agent for Debian VMs, run the following commands:
gcloud compute os-config patch-jobs execute INSTANCE_FILTER \ --apt-exclusive-packages=google-osconfig-agent
SLES
To update the agent for SLES VMs, run the following command:
gcloud compute os-config patch-jobs execute INSTANCE_FILTER \ --zypper-exclusive-patches=google-osconfig-agent
To update the agent on SLES VMs, you can also do a reinstall of the agent using the Google-provided packages. To do an install using Google-provided packages, see Install the OS Config agent.
Ubuntu
To update the agent for Ubuntu VMs, run the following commands:
gcloud compute os-config patch-jobs execute INSTANCE_FILTER \ --apt-exclusive-packages=google-osconfig-agent
To update the agent on Ubuntu VMs, we recommend that you do a reinstall of the agent using the Google-provided packages. To do an install using Google-provided packages, see Install the OS Config agent.
Windows
To update the agent for Windows VMs, run the following command:
gcloud compute os-config patch-jobs execute INSTANCE_FILTER \ --windows-exclusive-patches=google-packages