Google Cloud Shell

#1

Post by mikecb » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 1:45 PM UTC

Google Cloud Shell
cloud.google.com

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#2

Post by p0ppe » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

> Use of the Cloud Shell is free through the end of 2015: you will not be charged for any resource utilization.

Would be nice if they could have stated how much it's going to cost later on. We're less than three months from 2016.

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#3

Post by colinbartlett » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:11 PM UTC

Wait, so this runs in a browser? Is the idea that you can then use a machine like a Chromebook to handle your development?

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#4

Post by Filligree » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

p0ppe wrote: post #2

> Use of the Cloud Shell is free through the end of 2015: you will not be charged for any resource utilization. Would be nice if they could have stated how much it's going to cost later on. We're less than three months from 2016.

Well, it's a micro instance. At most it'll cost what a micro instance costs.

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#5

Post by rexignis » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

I like this, and it feels "Google-y". Worried that a handful of us will use it, lean on it heavily, and then Google will do what Google does and pull the plug on it.

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#6

Post by CamatHN » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:23 PM UTC

Filligree wrote: post #4

p0ppe wrote: post #2

> Use of the Cloud Shell is free through the end of 2015: you will not be charged for any resource utilization. Would be nice if they could have stated how much it's going to cost later on. We're less than three months from 2016.

Well, it's a micro instance. At most it'll cost what a micro instance costs.

0.005 p/h ~ $3.60 per month for those who were wondering.

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#7

Post by kuschku » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:27 PM UTC

CamatHN wrote: post #6

Filligree wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's a micro instance. At most it'll cost what a micro instance costs.

0.005 p/h ~ $3.60 per month for those who were wondering.

So $1.20 more per month than more powerful VPS from competitors like OVH.

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#8

Post by stephendicato » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:28 PM UTC

This doesn't actually appear to be new; at least not that I can tell.

Google Cloud has supported being able to open an SSH session to any of your instances right from the browser for awhile. I've found it to be a killer feature and am really surprised Amazon Web Services does not offer the same thing.

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#9

Post by Klathmon » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

rexignis wrote: post #5

I like this, and it feels "Google-y". Worried that a handful of us will use it, lean on it heavily, and then Google will do what Google does and pull the plug on it.

Well in all honesty if you end up leaning on it heavily in spite of the warning you kind of deserve whatever you get...

>This is a Beta release of Cloud Shell. This feature is not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy and may be subject to backward-incompatible changes.

Re: Google Cloud Shell

#10

Post by mark_l_watson » Sun, Oct 04, 2015, 2:34 PM UTC

Nice idea. I do a lot of my development SSHing to a resource rich VPS. For things that take a long time to run (Haskel stack builds, a long running machine learning calculation, etc.) it is great to not run that stuff on a laptop.

Cloud Shell is a bit different in the sense you would not want to try anything resource intensive on a micro instance. But for coordinating other services it makes sense.

I think Google needs to add one more thing to their cloud development toolkit: a public version of something close to their cider web based IDE that gives you access to work with any code you have in you private Google-hosted git repos, AppEngine and VPS services. nitrous.io has something like this, and I think that Google would do well to offer something similar for using the public version of their infrastructure.