Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
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Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
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Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#2If they just took the staff time poured into this toy and devoted it to fixing up the morass that is the GCloud web UI's Javascript, something actually useful might have come out of those salaries. Meanwhile, we have a bloaty CPU hog of a web UI and some wannabe terminal emulator hack.
Tacking an emulator for a 1950s teletype on the side of a web app is not innovation, so sad!
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#3With my Google Chrome 64.0.3282.119 instance, there is no user selector it seems, which is causing authentication to fail, which then causes an infinitely repeating loop of reconnection attempts all leading to a 404 or 401 response in JSON.
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#4(I work for Google Cloud)
If you want to learn more about Cloud Shell, the marketing page is here: https://cloud.google.com/shell/
Cloud Shell is one of my favorite things about GCP. A lot of dev tools (Docker, Python/Go/Node/Ruby/Java/.Net, etc) are pre-installed, you can test "localhost" servers with the preview feature, there is a built in file editor (based on the open source Orion project), etc. And it's all free!
This link will directly open the shell in a full page, and I'm not sure it will work unless you have set up your GCP account before. It's really not designed to be opened this way, I recommend opening it from the GCP console and then making it full screen if your want.
Also note: Cloud Shell gives you a persistent 5GB /home Directory, but every other folder is reset after a while. If you want to add your own binaries, I'd recommend adding home to your path and installing them there.
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#5If they just took the staff time poured into this toy and devoted it to fixing up the morass that is the GCloud web UI's Javascript, something actually useful might have come out of those salaries. Meanwhile, we have a bloaty CPU hog of a web UI and some wannabe terminal emulator hack. Tacking an emulator for a 1950s teletype on the side of a web app is not innovation, so sad!
This is actually a great teaching tool. Firebase (my team) uses them for in person code labs. It's a huge time saver to know that everyone already has access to a Linux machine with the developer tools and helps the class jump right into meaty bits.
Also, fetching dependencies to a machine in a data center avoids bringing down the wifi in a class.
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#6It's available for to anyone that has a Google account.
You don't have to be a "Gmail user".
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#7Before you get excited, read about limitations:
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#8(I work for Google Cloud) If you want to learn more about Cloud Shell, the marketing page is here: https://cloud.google.com/shell/ Cloud Shell is one of my favorite things about GCP. A lot of dev tools (Docker, Python/Go/Node/Ruby/Java/.Net, etc) are pre-installed, you can test "localhost" servers with the preview feature, there is a built in file editor (based on the open source Orion project), etc. And it's all fre…
Will Google record the input from the users and/or analyze it?
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#9can I ssh into it?
does it have a public ip?
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#10(I work for Google Cloud) If you want to learn more about Cloud Shell, the marketing page is here: https://cloud.google.com/shell/ Cloud Shell is one of my favorite things about GCP. A lot of dev tools (Docker, Python/Go/Node/Ruby/Java/.Net, etc) are pre-installed, you can test "localhost" servers with the preview feature, there is a built in file editor (based on the open source Orion project), etc. And it's all fre…
Will Google record the input from the users and/or analyze it?