VSI-start-shutdown-ibmcloud This can be added as an action in ibm cloud functions to trigger it periodically to automate VM shutdown and start process. This is tested with python 3.7 To start and shut down the VSIs on GEN-2 VPC infrastructure ibm cloud Provide your user id and api key in the python file and modify the "type" field in the payload to start or stop payload = f'{{"type": "stop"}}'