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title: Install GCE Guest Suite for Ubuntu Core on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of GCE Guest Suite for Ubuntu Core for Linux -
  GCE monolithic snap for Ubuntu Core
url: https://snapcraft.io/gce-guest-suite-core
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# GCE Guest Suite for Ubuntu Core (gce-guest-suite-core)

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latest/stable 26-0.2

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Install latest/stable of GCE Guest Suite for Ubuntu Core

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install gce-guest-suite-core
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* gce-guest-suite-core

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### License

* Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 16 October 2026 - latest/stable
* 16 October 2026 - latest/beta

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### Contact

* [github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core/issues](https://github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core/issues "https://github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core/issues")

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### Source code

* [github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core](https://github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core "https://github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core/issues](https://github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core/issues "https://github.com/canonical/gce-guest-suite-core/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/gce-guest-suite-core#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/gce-guest-suite-core#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/gce-guest-suite-core#tab-security)

#### GCE monolithic snap for Ubuntu Core

Provides a *subset* of Google Cloud's guest-agent functionality
for Ubuntu Core's strict-confinement architecture

What's included:

* Metadata server polling
* Startup script execution (sandboxed)
* Hostname management
* ssh authorized\_keys sync onto one fixed, pre-existing account
  (ubuntu) via the golang `ssh-key-sync helper`. This is not technically
  user creation and nor is it OSLogin; it writes one declared file for one
  account that already exists.

What's not included (i.e. not achievable on Core):

* OSLogin (The PAM && NSS modules need to live in the base snap)
* Dynamic creation of arbitrary users via metadata
* osconfig style patch management (Core does not have apt or .debs)
* guest-configs udev/sysctl/systemd unit files (could hypothetically be delivered via the gadget snap instead)

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## Install GCE Guest Suite for Ubuntu Core on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/ubuntu)

[### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/gce-guest-suite-core/raspbian)