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Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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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.

+1, not having the user selector on this is a pain, more than once ive spun up some resources on a personnal account accidentally

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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(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…

It is one of a few tunnels that things like Websense can't recognize. Well known to consultants stranded on networks heavily controlled by their F500 clients.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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(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…

Can I give you a tidbit of feedback? If the instance is ephemeral, I need to manage everything in HOME and that's fine. For Python, that basically means using Virtualenv. That works fine at the moment for python 2.7, but 3.x on Debian requires the package python3-venv, which is not installed by default - and sure enough, it's missing in Cloud Shell. It's a bit annoying having to apt-get install python3-venv every tim…

You can tell virtualenv to use an arbitrary python interpreter, even pypy, using `--python=/path/to/python/interpreter`.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I give you a tidbit of feedback? If the instance is ephemeral, I need to manage everything in HOME and that's fine. For Python, that basically means using Virtualenv. That works fine at the moment for python 2.7, but 3.x on Debian requires the package python3-venv, which is not installed by default - and sure enough, it's missing in Cloud Shell. It's a bit annoying having to apt-get install python3-venv every tim…

You can tell virtualenv to use an arbitrary python interpreter, even pypy, using `--python=/path/to/python/interpreter`.

But then I have to install the virtualenv script in every dev environment, when really the stdlib version is perfectly fine and requires no extra hacks.

It's an annoyance specific to Debian and to this day I'm not sure I understand the rationale for splitting it out of the main python3 package.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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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)

Ugh, as soon as I signed up I got locked out of Google Payments due to "fraud protection"... when I used the same computer I always use and the same credit card number as I've used before without any problems. I have no clue what is going on, but come on guys... nobody's going to want to trade in a government issued ID to exchange for a "free" VM.

Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

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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)

Ugh, as soon as I signed up I got locked out of Google Payments due to "fraud protection"... when I used the same computer I always use and the same credit card number as I've used before without any problems. I have no clue what is going on, but come on guys... nobody's going to want to trade in a government issued ID to exchange for a "free" VM.

Consider contacting Google cloud or payment support people. Also maybe check with your credit card company to see how they responded to any payment request from Google.
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