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Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by wyclif »

sneak wrote: post #21

Last I looked, Cloud Shell was still pretty tiny instances, with no paid option for more (wth isn’t there a super boost mode that I pay for, at least?!), and the integrated editor was meh. I suppose I could use it with the gcloud CLI and docker-machine as a sort of orchestration console to bring up more boxes, but then I have to remember to kill them or I get a huge bill. (This has happened to me on DO before.) AWS C…

the integrated editor was meh

Cloud Shell has Vim 8 installed, which you can use instead.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by dragonwriter »

sneak wrote: post #21

Last I looked, Cloud Shell was still pretty tiny instances, with no paid option for more (wth isn’t there a super boost mode that I pay for, at least?!), and the integrated editor was meh. I suppose I could use it with the gcloud CLI and docker-machine as a sort of orchestration console to bring up more boxes, but then I have to remember to kill them or I get a huge bill. (This has happened to me on DO before.) AWS C…

> I loved Cloud Shell but the inability to let me pay for a bigger backing instance or more storage is a real limitation.

Except Cloud Shell has Boost Mode:

https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/features#boost_mode

> Whoever first integrates Atom, though (all of these seem to use Ace), I think will be the real winner.

Google's is based on Orion, not Ace.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by lallysingh »

ryancnelson wrote: post #20
ryancnelson wrote: post #18

is this down at the moment? (Sat Jan 27 23:18:48 UTC 2018) the ux seems to be hanging, trying to contact https://ssh.cloud.google.com ... "slashdotted?", or whatever the hackernews term for that is?

... of course, moments after i posted this comment, it started responding again. Growing pains, I suppose, or temporary burp.

Delay for spinning up new instances?

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by ameliaquining »

derefr wrote: post #19

And if you'd rather use something on a higher level of abstraction, there's also Google Apps Script ( https://www.google.com/script/start/ ) From one way of thinking, Apps Script is a lot like AWS Lambda; but from another way of thinking, Apps Script is more like OS automation workflows that happen to run in your cloud account rather than on your computer.

Personally, I think of Apps Script as being more like the cloud-based equivalent of VBA.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by mcsb1 »

thesandlord wrote: post #17
wklm wrote: post #9

can I ssh into it? does it have a public ip?

If you want a free Linux box with a Public IP and SSH, I'd recommend spinning up an f1-micro VM. It's part of the permanent free tier: https://cloud.google.com/free/ Cloud Shell is a "temporary" instance, really meant for interactive Dev/Admin work. (I work for GCP)

Quick feedback: it's the first time that I have looked into GCP and compared to AWS the UX is by far sub standard. Even with $300 credits I am not tempted to make use of it.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by iamdave »

e12e wrote: post #22
thesandlord wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want a free Linux box with a Public IP and SSH, I'd recommend spinning up an f1-micro VM. It's part of the permanent free tier: https://cloud.google.com/free/ Cloud Shell is a "temporary" instance, really meant for interactive Dev/Admin work. (I work for GCP)

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I wasn't aware there was a free tier. I really appreciate that it's an actual free tier: "Thanks for signing up for the 12-month free trial. We've given you $300 in free trial credit to spend. If you run out of credit, don't worry, you won't be billed until you give your permission." [ed: and as mentioned above there are instances that don't consume any of those 300 credits]

I wasn't aware there was a free tier. I really appreciate that it's an actual free tier:

Neither was I, agreed! Thank you for sharing, now I can actually test a few services to see if it makes sense migrating some of our microservices (or probably better stated: nanoservices) to gCloud that are currently running on expensive bare metal (wasn't my call, I'm just trying to get us to modernize).

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by spullara »

decentrality wrote: post #3

With 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.

I always try with private browsing mode when their login system gets into this state.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Post by emmelaich »

mschuster91 wrote: post #30

How does this work? Given that its PID1 is not a "real" init process but a bash running the script `/google/scripts/onrun.sh` and its / being type `aufs`, I guess this is a Debian Docker instance?

Yep, /etc/debian_version is 9.3.

It has a docker0 network interface (among others)

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