You can change the Confidential Space workload VM behavior by passing variables
into the --metadata option when you create the VM.
To pass in multiple variables, first set the delimiter by prefixing the
--metadata value with ^~^. This sets the delimiter to ~, as , is used in
variable values.
Sets environment variables in the workload container. The workload
author must also add the environment variable names to the
allow_env_override
launch policy, or they won't be set.
Defaults to false. When set to true,
enables memory usage monitoring. The metrics collected by the
Confidential VM are of the
guest/memory/bytes_used
type, and can be viewed in Cloud Logging
or
Metrics Explorer.
A list of semicolon-separated mount definitions. A mount
definition consists of a comma-separated list of key-value pairs,
requiring type, source, and
destination. destination must be an
absolute path and type/source must be
tmpfs.
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