docs/examples/compute/gce/deploy_node.py

import os

from libcloud.compute.types import Provider
from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver
from libcloud.compute.deployment import ScriptDeployment

# Path to the private SSH key file used to authenticate
PRIVATE_SSH_KEY_PATH = os.path.expanduser("~/.ssh/id_rsa_gce")

# Path to the public SSH key file which will be installed on the server for
# the root user
PUBLIC_SSH_KEY_PATH = os.path.expanduser("~/.ssh/id_rsa_gce.pub")

with open(PUBLIC_SSH_KEY_PATH) as fp:
    PUBLIC_SSH_KEY_CONTENT = fp.read().strip()

# GCE authentication related info
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_USERNAME = "<username>@<project id>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIALS_JSON_FILE_PATH = "/path/to/sac.json"

PROJECT_ID = "my-gcp-project"

Driver = get_driver(Provider.GCE)
driver = Driver(
    SERVICE_ACCOUNT_USERNAME,
    SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIALS_JSON_FILE_PATH,
    project=PROJECT_ID,
    datacenter="us-central1-a",
)

step = ScriptDeployment("echo whoami ; date ; ls -la")

images = driver.list_images()
sizes = driver.list_sizes()

image = [i for i in images if i.name == "ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20191217"][0]
size = [s for s in sizes if s.name == "e2-micro"][0]

print("Using image: %s" % (image))
print("Using size: %s" % (size))

# NOTE: We specify which public key is installed on the instance using
# metadata functionality.
# Keep in mind that this step is only needed if you want to install a specific
# key which is used to run the deployment script.
# If you are using a VM image with a public SSH key already pre-baked in or if
# you use project wide ssh-keys GCP functionality, you can remove ex_metadata
# argument, but you still need to make sure the private key you use inside this
# script matches the one which is installed / available on the server.
ex_metadata = metadata = {
    "items": [{"key": "ssh-keys", "value": "root: %s" % (PUBLIC_SSH_KEY_CONTENT)}]
}

# deploy_node takes the same base keyword arguments as create_node.
node = driver.deploy_node(
    name="libcloud-deploy-demo-1",
    image=image,
    size=size,
    ex_metadata=metadata,
    deploy=step,
    ssh_key=PRIVATE_SSH_KEY_PATH,
)

print("")
print("Node: %s" % (node))
print("")
print("stdout: %s" % (step.stdout))
print("stderr: %s" % (step.stderr))
print("exit_code: %s" % (step.exit_status))