Preview: To control the use of the deprecated container startup agent, an option for
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**Preview**: To control the use of the deprecated container startup agent, an option for deploying containers on Compute Engine instances, you can enforce the`constraints/compute.managed.disableVmsWithContainerStartupAgent` organization policy constraint. This constraint prevents the creation of Compute Engine instances that use the container startup agent and the `gce-container-declaration` metadata.
You can also enforce this organization policy in dry-run mode to identify projects that use the deprecated metadata, without blocking resource creation.
For more information, see [Prevent the creation of VMs that use the container metadata](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/prevent-konlet-vms) and [Migrate containers deployed on VMs during VM creation](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/migrate-containers).
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