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What's the point of this? I can already ssh into any of my instances on AWS, Linode, whatever platform. Is it just because it's in the browser. Who cares...
Source: I'm a high school teacher at just such a school.
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You can reach your full cloud infrastructure from any browser, all you need to remember is your google password. No need for a terminal or ssh, a regular windows, os x, linux, chromebook or tablet will do. Quite handy.
Handy? That sounds like a security nightmare. Your instances are accessible by simply being able to gain access to the Google account? Even with 2-factor authentication, this is a serious no-no to basic security requirements. A remote server should be only accessible from specific IPs using ssh keys. No passwords, no world-accessible browser interface.
As a long time user of googles web based terminal (accessed normally through google cloud platform console by listing your VMs and clicking the SSH button): I love it because I don't need to worry about key management and can access my machines anywhere that has a browser. However, my few gripes are: 1)when copying text out of the web terminal window that spans multiple lines (on Mac osx chrome), newlines are inserte…
OT, this is a big reason why I encourage people to learn vi/vim.
It doesn't rely on ctrl, and can be used in environments that do weird mappings to control characters. Anything you can do with ctrl, can be done with regular keys and commands.
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disclaimer: I work at GCP That is rad! Anything we can do to help? Link to the company?
I have noticed that all google cloud services now require credit card information for validation. Can this be be made optional and instead rely on their Gmail accounts ? (Especially for people just wanting to tinker with new services for fun)
I suspect that it's unlikely that google can remove this because bad guys tend to spin up many free trial instances and do bad things (sharded bitcoin mining, DDoS'ing, etc). Privacy is #1 so they aren't allowed to look inside your machines or inspect your traffic...so that leaves billing / such metadata to fight abuse.
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Handy? That sounds like a security nightmare. Your instances are accessible by simply being able to gain access to the Google account? Even with 2-factor authentication, this is a serious no-no to basic security requirements. A remote server should be only accessible from specific IPs using ssh keys. No passwords, no world-accessible browser interface.
> A remote server should be only accessible from specific IPs using ssh keys. No passwords, no world-accessible browser interface. Maybe if you own the servers. Since they're Google's or Amazon's servers you have to be able to administer them with some set of Google or Amazon credentials. Otherwise what would you do if sshd crashed?
Kill that instance, and spin up a new one.
A wise BOFH gave a preso that stuck with me "Treat EC2 instances like cattle. When one strays off the farm, put a bullet in it's head."
Don't treat your cloud machines as special snowflakes. Build infrastructure via script.
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Well, not always. As a student, you don’t want to spend 4$ for a cloud console, plus 4$ for cloud IRC, plus 20$ for a VPS, plus 12$ for your phone contract, plus 120$ for a new phone every 2 years... I – like most people – don’t let useless devices run on standby either, costing me upwards of 30$ a year for a TV on standby. As a student, I don’t buy totally overpriced coffee that costs that much either.
You're well past the point of diminishing returns where it makes sense for you to focus your efforts more on increasing income rather than reducing expenditures further. If saving $1 per month is significant to you then it sounds like you've already cut your expenditures to the bone, and there's no more blood to squeeze from that stone. Even working a single hour per week at a part-time job would have better returns…
Also, I’d still cut expenditures equally. Even my parents – both of which have studied law – do this. Actually, most people I know do. Why waste money on useless devices if it takes only seconds to unplug them?
So, what if you don't have that button? Is there a minimum amount of product you need to have before this service becomes active?
> 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.
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Handy? That sounds like a security nightmare. Your instances are accessible by simply being able to gain access to the Google account? Even with 2-factor authentication, this is a serious no-no to basic security requirements. A remote server should be only accessible from specific IPs using ssh keys. No passwords, no world-accessible browser interface.
> A remote server should be only accessible from specific IPs using ssh keys. No passwords, no world-accessible browser interface. Maybe if you own the servers. Since they're Google's or Amazon's servers you have to be able to administer them with some set of Google or Amazon credentials. Otherwise what would you do if sshd crashed?