We can directly deploy containers into VM instance of Google Compute Engine, instead of launching a heavy Kubernetes cluster. The command looks like:

gcloud compute instances create-with-container $(VM_NAME) \
    --container-image=$(IMAGE_NAME) \
    --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
    --labels team=mle,product=decision-engine \
    --zone us-east1-a

To add enviroment variables to this container, we just need to add an argument:

    --container-env-file env.list

To let the container run command for us, we need to add command arguments:

    --container-command "/bin/bash" \
    --container-arg="-c" \
    --container-arg="make all; bash next.sh"

There is still a problem: the VM instance will run this container again and again even the result of the task in container is successful.
To solve this, we just need to add another argument:

    --container-restart-policy on-failure

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