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Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
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Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
You do need to register as a business if you are located in EMEA. There is no private/personal option. This is a huge showstopper for me and, in my opinion, anyone who wants to use it for educational purposes.
> You do need to register as a business if you are located in EMEA. Is that a T&C rule or a technical block? Because I'm in EMEA, not registered as a business, and it opened for me just fine.
It's inquired when you first register for GCP. If beforehand you've selected EMEA country there will be no option to choose between personal/business.
GCP support did respond to my inquiry and they specified that it's the case in whole EMEA.
P.S I just tried and it appears they've added option to switch to "Individual". Great!
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It has a docker0 network interface (among others) That's for the dockerd which is running inside the ... VM? The interesting thing is that the uptime and dmesg show that this system is not shared on the kernel level - if I were to guess, I'd say that Google allocates a real virtual machine with a tiny OS running Docker, starts the docker container inside this VM and then grants you webshell/ssh access to this Docke…
You're right... and docker works: $ docker pull hello-world $ docker run hello-world Hello from Docker! This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly. .... Not surprising since two of the outgoing ports allowed are 2375 and 2376 -- the docker non-ssl and ssl ports.
A minor note: docker run will download the image if it's not already present. No need to pull manually (unless you want to go offline or something like that).
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#74can 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)
Is there a way to use permanent free tier f1-micro without also triggering free trial 12 month? I don't want to use free trial right now but would want to test f1-micro.
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You do need to register as a business if you are located in EMEA. Is that a T&C rule or a technical block? Because I'm in EMEA, not registered as a business, and it opened for me just fine.
It's inquired when you first register for GCP. If beforehand you've selected EMEA country there will be no option to choose between personal/business. GCP support did respond to my inquiry and they specified that it's the case in whole EMEA. P.S I just tried and it appears they've added option to switch to "Individual". Great!
You don't have to register for GCP to use the cloud shell.
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Will Google record the input from the users and/or analyze it?
No. https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms
I cannot confirm your answer.
In "6. Data Deletion" Google assures that data will be delete in a reasonable fashion upon request or on expiry of the term. Google reserves the right to share the data with other entities in "11.2 Information about Subprocessors" which are listed in [0]. I assume that the data will also be deleted from the subprocessors. It is also stated that the function is explained, yet an exhaustive explanation is missing. The most informative I can find is that they "provide customer and technical support" besides some non-exclusive examples of activities.
Also, I see no part that ensures Google won't analyze the data, like for example to train neural networks. Could you point me to it?
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#77Does this tool recovery all deleted accounts also ?
Google disables accounts when you dont follow google's agenda or you have been flaggwd as russian troll.
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#78Why comments are hidden in hacker news? Are you guys censoring comments ??
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#79Would be great for your shell to automount your Google drive. (I know Google Drive isn't a real distributed file system, but the point stands... and if GDrive doesn't work, how about Google making an actual distributed/network file system that I can own for this purpose, like AWS EFS?)
Re: Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users
#80Last 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.
I meant the local one. Remote editing over ssh is a nonstarter.