create-with-container doesn't seem to start the container

Question

I am creating a compute engine with a container and I was expecting the compute engine to start the container once it launches. But it doesn't look like the container starts at all. Does create-with-container merely creates a compute engine with a container? If so, how do I tell it to start the container?

gcloud compute instances create-with-container instance-1 \
  --container-image=us.gcr.io/foo/bar \
  --zone=us-central1-c \
  --machine-type="e2-micro" \
  --scopes=storage-rw,compute-rw

EDIT: Your container should start when your VM starts. When passing --container-arg, use equal sign not space. e.g. --container-arg="--job_id=1" not --container-arg="--job_id 1"

Answer 1

In my case using space instead of equal sign inside the --container-arg made my container not start correctly.

Do --container-arg="--job_id=1" not --container-arg="--job_id 1"

My gcloud command:

gcloud compute instances create-with-container instance-1 \
  --container-image=us.gcr.io/foo/bar \
  --container-arg="--job_id=1"

My container runs fine with both equal sign (docker run us.gcr.io/foo/bar --job_id=1) and space (docker run us.gcr.io/foo/bar --job_id 1) on my local machine and I am used to using space.