diff --git a/perfmetrics/scripts/testing_on_gke/examples/run-gke-tests.sh b/perfmetrics/scripts/testing_on_gke/examples/run-gke-tests.sh
index f5639340ae..66ad06544b 100755
--- a/perfmetrics/scripts/testing_on_gke/examples/run-gke-tests.sh
+++ b/perfmetrics/scripts/testing_on_gke/examples/run-gke-tests.sh
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ function printRunParameters() {
 
 # Install dependencies.
 function installDependencies() {
+  printf "\nInstalling dependencies ...\n\n"
   # Refresh software repositories.
   sudo apt-get update
   # Get some common software dependencies.
@@ -402,12 +403,12 @@ function ensureRequiredNodePoolConfiguration() {
 
 function enableManagedCsiDriverIfNeeded() {
   if ${use_custom_csi_driver}; then
-    echo "Disabling csi add-on ..."
+    printf "\nDisabling csi add-on ...\n\n"
     gcloud -q container clusters update ${cluster_name} \
     --update-addons GcsFuseCsiDriver=DISABLED \
     --location=${zone}
   else
-    echo "Enabling csi add-on ..."
+    printf "\nEnabling csi add-on ...\n\n"
     gcloud -q container clusters update ${cluster_name} \
       --update-addons GcsFuseCsiDriver=ENABLED \
       --location=${zone}
@@ -415,12 +416,13 @@ function enableManagedCsiDriverIfNeeded() {
 }
 
 function activateCluster() {
-  echo "Configuring cluster credentials ..."
+  printf "\nConfiguring cluster credentials ...\n\n"
   gcloud container clusters get-credentials ${cluster_name} --location=${zone}
   kubectl config current-context
 }
 
 function createKubernetesServiceAccountForCluster() {
+  printf "\nCreating namespace and KSA ...\n\n"
   log="$(kubectl create namespace ${appnamespace} 2>&1)" || [[ "$log" == *"already exists"* ]]
   log="$(kubectl create serviceaccount ${ksa} --namespace ${appnamespace} 2>&1)" || [[ "$log" == *"already exists"* ]]
   kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=${appnamespace}
@@ -429,6 +431,7 @@ function createKubernetesServiceAccountForCluster() {
 }
 
 function addGCSAccessPermissions() {
+  printf "\nAdding storage.ObjectUser permissions to all the relevant buckets to ksa=${ksa} in namespace=${appnamespace} ...\n\n"
   test -f "${workload_config}"
   grep -wh '\"bucket\"' "${workload_config}" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d, -f1 | cut -d \" -f2 | sort | uniq | grep -v ' ' | while read workload_bucket; do
     gcloud storage buckets add-iam-policy-binding gs://${workload_bucket} \
@@ -438,7 +441,7 @@ function addGCSAccessPermissions() {
 }
 
 function ensureGcsfuseCode() {
-  echo "Ensuring we have gcsfuse code ..."
+  printf "\nEnsuring we have gcsfuse code ...\n\n\n"
   # clone gcsfuse code if needed
   if ! test -d "${gcsfuse_src_dir}"; then
     cd $(dirname "${gcsfuse_src_dir}") && git clone ${gcsfuse_github_path} && cd "${gcsfuse_src_dir}" && git switch ${gcsfuse_branch} && cd - && cd -
@@ -448,7 +451,7 @@ function ensureGcsfuseCode() {
 }
 
 function ensureGcsFuseCsiDriverCode() {
-  echo "Ensuring we have gcs-fuse-csi-driver code ..."
+  printf "\nEnsuring we have gcs-fuse-csi-driver code ...\n\n"
   # clone csi-driver code if needed
   if ! test -d "${csi_src_dir}"; then
     cd $(dirname "${csi_src_dir}") && git clone ${csi_driver_github_path} && cd "${csi_src_dir}" && git switch ${csi_driver_branch} && cd - && cd -
@@ -460,13 +463,14 @@ function createCustomCsiDriverIfNeeded() {
     echo "Disabling managed CSI driver ..."
     gcloud -q container clusters update ${cluster_name} --update-addons GcsFuseCsiDriver=DISABLED --location=${zone}
 
-    echo "Building custom CSI driver ..."
+    printf "\nCreating a new custom CSI driver ...\n\n"
 
     # Create a bucket for storing custom-csi driver.
     test -n "${package_bucket}" || export package_bucket=${USER/google/}-gcsfuse-binary-package
     (gcloud storage buckets list | grep -wqo ${package_bucket}) || (region=$(echo ${zone} | rev | cut -d- -f2- | rev) && gcloud storage buckets create gs://${package_bucket} --location=${region})
 
     # Build a new gcsfuse binary
+    printf "\nBuilding a new GCSFuse binary from ${gcsfuse_src_dir} ...\n\n"
     cd "${gcsfuse_src_dir}"
     rm -rfv ./bin ./sbin
     GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go run tools/build_gcsfuse/main.go . . v3
@@ -477,12 +481,13 @@ function createCustomCsiDriverIfNeeded() {
     rm -rfv "${gcsfuse_src_dir}"/bin "${gcsfuse_src_dir}"/sbin
     cd -
 
-    echo "Installing custom CSI driver ..."
     # Build and install csi driver
     ensureGcsFuseCsiDriverCode
     cd "${csi_src_dir}"
     make uninstall || true
+    printf "\nBuilding a new custom CSI driver using the above GCSFuse binary ...\n\n"
     make build-image-and-push-multi-arch REGISTRY=gcr.io/${project_id}/${USER} GCSFUSE_PATH=gs://${package_bucket}
+    printf "\nInstalling the new custom CSI driver built above ...\n\n"
     make install PROJECT=${project_id} REGISTRY=gcr.io/${project_id}/${USER}
     cd -
   else
@@ -493,24 +498,24 @@ function createCustomCsiDriverIfNeeded() {
 }
 
 function deleteAllHelmCharts() {
-  echo "Deleting all existing helm charts ..."
+  printf "\nDeleting all existing helm charts ...\n\n"
   helm ls --namespace=${appnamespace} | tr -s '\t' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n +2 | while read helmchart; do helm uninstall ${helmchart} --namespace=${appnamespace}; done
 }
 
 function deleteAllPods() {
   deleteAllHelmCharts
 
-  echo "Deleting all existing pods ..."
+  printf "\nDeleting all existing pods ...\n\n"
   kubectl get pods --namespace=${appnamespace}  | tail -n +2 | cut -d' ' -f1 | while read podname; do kubectl delete pods/${podname} --namespace=${appnamespace} --grace-period=0 --force || true; done
 }
 
 function deployAllFioHelmCharts() {
-  echo "Deploying all fio helm charts ..."
+  printf "\nDeploying all fio helm charts ...\n\n"
   cd "${gke_testing_dir}"/examples/fio && python3 ./run_tests.py --workload-config "${workload_config}" --instance-id ${instance_id} --machine-type="${machine_type}" && cd -
 }
 
 function deployAllDlioHelmCharts() {
-  echo "Deploying all dlio helm charts ..."
+  printf "\nDeploying all dlio helm charts ...\n\n"
   cd "${gke_testing_dir}"/examples/dlio && python3 ./run_tests.py --workload-config "${workload_config}" --instance-id ${instance_id} --machine-type="${machine_type}" && cd -
 }
 
@@ -526,7 +531,7 @@ function listAllHelmCharts() {
 }
 
 function waitTillAllPodsComplete() {
-  echo "Scanning and waiting till all pods either complete or fail ..."
+  printf "\nScanning and waiting till all pods either complete or fail ...\n\n"
   while true; do
     printf "Checking pods status at "$(date +%s)":\n-----------------------------------\n"
     podslist="$(kubectl get pods --namespace=${appnamespace} -o wide)"
@@ -545,16 +550,15 @@ function waitTillAllPodsComplete() {
       break
     else
       printf "${num_noncompleted_pods} pod(s) is/are still pending or running. Will check again in "${pod_wait_time_in_seconds}" seconds. Sleeping for now.\n"
-      printf "You can take a break too if you want and kill this command. To refer back to this run for fetching/parsing outputs, use environment variables "
-      printf " \" only_parse=true output_dir=${output_dir} cluster_name=${cluster_name} workload_config=${workload_config} instance_id=${instance_id} \""
-      printf " with ${0}\n"
-      printf "To ssh to any specific pod, use the following command: \n"
+      printf "\nYou can take a break too if you want and kill this command. To continue this run, for fetching and parsing outputs, run: \n"
+      printf "   only_parse=true instance_id=${instance_id} project_id=${project_id} project_number=${project_number} zone=${zone} machine_type=${machine_type} appnamespace=${appnamespace} gcsfuse_src_dir=\"${gcsfuse_src_dir}\" csi_src_dir=\"${csi_src_dir}\" pod_wait_time_in_seconds=${pod_wait_time_in_seconds} workload_config=\"${workload_config}\" cluster_name=${cluster_name} output_dir=\"${output_dir}\" $0 \n"
+      printf "\nTo ssh to any specific pod, use the following command: \n"
       printf "  gcloud container clusters get-credentials ${cluster_name} --location=${zone}\n"
       printf "  kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=${appnamespace}\n"
       printf "  kubectl exec -it pods/<podname> [-c {gke-gcsfuse-sidecar|fio-tester|dlio-tester}] --namespace=${appnamespace} -- /bin/bash \n"
-      printf "To view cpu/memory usage of different pods/containers: \n"
+      printf "\nTo view cpu/memory usage of different pods/containers: \n"
       printf "  kubectl top pod [<podname>] --namespace=${appnamespace} [--containers] \n"
-      printf "To view the latest status of the pods: \n"
+      printf "\nTo view the latest status of the pods: \n"
       printf "  kubectl get pods --namespace=${appnamespace} -o wide [--watch] \n"
 
       printf "\n\n\n"
@@ -565,14 +569,14 @@ function waitTillAllPodsComplete() {
 }
 
 function fetchAndParseFioOutputs() {
-  echo "Fetching and parsing fio outputs ..."
+  printf "\nFetching and parsing fio outputs ...\n\n"
   cd "${gke_testing_dir}"/examples/fio
   python3 parse_logs.py --project-number=${project_number} --workload-config "${workload_config}" --instance-id ${instance_id} --output-file "${output_dir}"/fio/output.csv --project-id=${project_id} --cluster-name=${cluster_name} --namespace-name=${appnamespace}
   cd -
 }
 
 function fetchAndParseDlioOutputs() {
-  echo "Fetching and parsing dlio outputs ..."
+  printf "\nFetching and parsing dlio outputs ...\n\n"
   cd "${gke_testing_dir}"/examples/dlio
   python3 parse_logs.py --project-number=${project_number} --workload-config "${workload_config}" --instance-id ${instance_id} --output-file "${output_dir}"/dlio/output.csv --project-id=${project_id} --cluster-name=${cluster_name} --namespace-name=${appnamespace}
   cd -