Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users

Post by mehrdadn » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 3:36 AM UTC

kyrra wrote: post #60

mehrdadn wrote: post #59

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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.

Post by jlgaddis » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 4:50 AM UTC

mehrdadn wrote: post #61

kyrra wrote: post #60

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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.

Payment request...? Didn't they say there is no charge unless and until you affirm that you want to pay?

Post by devereaux » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 5:01 AM UTC

thesandlord wrote: post #24

e12e wrote: post #22

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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]

So there is the free trial and the free tier. The free trial is $300 for 12 months that you can spend on pretty much anything (I think there are some limits on GPUs due to abuse). The free tier is free forever, no dollar limits or time limits. This includes the 24/7 f1-micro, 28 App Engine hours per day, Cloud Datastore, Firebase stuff, some Cloud Functions, etc.

Post by thesandlord » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 5:50 AM UTC

devereaux wrote: post #65

thesandlord wrote: post #24

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So there is the free trial and the free tier. The free trial is $300 for 12 months that you can spend on pretty much anything (I think there are some limits on GPUs due to abuse). The free tier is free forever, no dollar limits or time limits. This includes the 24/7 f1-micro, 28 App Engine hours per day, Cloud Datastore, Firebase stuff, some Cloud Functions, etc.

In the free tier, is it "fair game" to run 10 instances of the f1-micro? I would like to test the throughput, measure uptime over a few months, and check how well it handles DDOS. I would configure 10x static IPv4 and IPv6 to make sure it does not impact anyone else. I plan to setup a nginx serving a few static pages with a Round Robin DNS on a subdomain.

Post by dundercoder » Sun, Jan 28, 2018, 7:21 AM UTC

toyg wrote: post #46

thesandlord wrote: post #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 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…

    @cloudshell:~/python3/bin$ ./ipython3
    Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 28 2018, 00:39:17)
    Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
    IPython 6.2.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
    In [1]: from __future__ import braces
      File "", line 1
        from __future__ import braces
                                     ^
    SyntaxError: not a chance