diff --git a/tools/apigee-x-trial-provision/apigee-x-trial-provision.sh b/tools/apigee-x-trial-provision/apigee-x-trial-provision.sh
index da2f2bc36..502f2ab5e 100755
--- a/tools/apigee-x-trial-provision/apigee-x-trial-provision.sh
+++ b/tools/apigee-x-trial-provision/apigee-x-trial-provision.sh
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ gcloud compute instance-templates create "$MIG" \
   --no-address \
   --tags=https-server,apigee-network-proxy,gke-apigee-proxy \
   --machine-type "$PROXY_MACHINE_TYPE""$PREEMPTIBLE_FLAG" \
-  --image-family centos-7 \
+  --image-family centos-stream-9 \
   --image-project centos-cloud --boot-disk-size 20GB \
   --metadata ENDPOINT="$APIGEE_ENDPOINT",startup-script-url=gs://apigee-5g-saas/apigee-envoy-proxy-release/latest/conf/startup-script.sh --project "$PROJECT" --quiet
 
@@ -494,4 +494,4 @@ else
   echo "export RUNTIME_HOST_ALIAS=$RUNTIME_HOST_ALIAS"
 
   echo 'curl --cacert $RUNTIME_TLS_CERT https://$RUNTIME_HOST_ALIAS/hello-world -v --resolve "$RUNTIME_HOST_ALIAS:443:$RUNTIME_IP"'
-fi
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+fi