diff --git a/tools/gce/create_linux_worker.sh b/tools/gce/create_linux_worker.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright 2015 gRPC authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Creates a standard jenkins worker on GCE.
-
-set -ex
-
-cd "$(dirname "$0")"
-
-CLOUD_PROJECT=grpc-testing
-ZONE=us-central1-a
-
-INSTANCE_NAME="${1:-grpc-jenkins-worker1}"
-
-gcloud compute instances create "$INSTANCE_NAME" \
-    --project="$CLOUD_PROJECT" \
-    --zone "$ZONE" \
-    --machine-type n1-standard-16 \
-    --image=ubuntu-1510 \
-    --image-project=grpc-testing \
-    --boot-disk-size 1000 \
-    --scopes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery \
-    --tags=allow-ssh
-
-echo 'Created GCE instance, waiting 60 seconds for it to come online.'
-sleep 60
-
-gcloud compute copy-files \
-    --project="$CLOUD_PROJECT" \
-    --zone "$ZONE" \
-    jenkins_master.pub linux_worker_init.sh "${INSTANCE_NAME}":~
-
-gcloud compute ssh \
-    --project="$CLOUD_PROJECT" \
-    --zone "$ZONE" \
-    "$INSTANCE_NAME" --command "./linux_worker_init.sh"
diff --git a/tools/gce/linux_worker_init.sh b/tools/gce/linux_worker_init.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright 2015 gRPC authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Initializes a fresh GCE VM to become a jenkins linux worker.
-# You shouldn't run this script on your own, use create_linux_worker.sh
-# instead.
-
-set -ex
-
-# Create some swap space
-sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=10485760
-sudo chmod 600 /swap
-sudo mkswap /swap
-sudo sed -i '$ a\/swap none swap sw 0 0' /etc/fstab
-sudo swapon -a
-
-# Typical apt-get maintenance
-sudo apt-get update
-
-# Install JRE
-sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-8-jre
-sudo apt-get install -y unzip lsof
-
-# Install Docker
-curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
-
-# Setup jenkins user (or the user will already exist bcuz magic)
-sudo adduser jenkins --disabled-password || true
-
-# Enable jenkins to use docker without sudo:
-sudo usermod -aG docker jenkins
-
-# Use "overlay" storage driver for docker
-# see https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/4988
-printf "{\n\t\"storage-driver\": \"overlay\"\n}" | sudo tee /etc/docker/daemon.json
-
-# Install pip and Google API library to enable using GCP services
-sudo apt-get install -y python-pip
-sudo pip install google-api-python-client
-
-# Install RVM
-# TODO(jtattermusch): why is RVM needed?
-gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
-curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
-
-# Upgrade Linux kernel to 4.9
-wget \
-  kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.9.20/linux-headers-4.9.20-040920_4.9.20-040920.201703310531_all.deb \
-  kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.9.20/linux-headers-4.9.20-040920-generic_4.9.20-040920.201703310531_amd64.deb \
-  kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.9.20/linux-image-4.9.20-040920-generic_4.9.20-040920.201703310531_amd64.deb
-sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.9*.deb linux-image-4.9*.deb
-rm linux-*
-
-# Add pubkey of jenkins@grpc-jenkins-master to authorized keys of jenkins@
-# This needs to happen as the last step to prevent Jenkins master from connecting
-# to a machine that hasn't been properly setup yet.
-
-# disable superfluous warning by shellcheck:
-# shellcheck disable=SC2024
-sudo tee --append ~jenkins/.ssh/authorized_keys < jenkins_master.pub
-
-# Restart for docker to pick up the config changes.
-echo 'Successfully initialized the linux worker, going for reboot in 10 seconds'
-sleep 10
-
-sudo reboot