cloud engineer
by Ulysses
How to find a boot disk from an instance.
gcloud compute instances describe servername \ --format='get(disks[0].source)' \ --zone=us-central1-c \ --project project-id |
gcloud compute instances describe servername \ --format='get(disks[0].source)' \ --zone=us-central1-c \ --project project-id
Result
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project-id/zones/us-central1-f/disks/servername-boot |
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project-id/zones/us-central1-f/disks/servername-boot
by Ulysses
Here’s the script to backup GCP disks.
#!/bin/bash now=$(date +%s) disks=$(gcloud compute disks list --project project-id --filter="users:instance" --format="value(name)") for disk in $disks do gcloud compute disks snapshot $disk \ --snapshot-names=$disk-$now \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --project=project-id \ --async done |
#!/bin/bash now=$(date +%s) disks=$(gcloud compute disks list --project project-id --filter="users:instance" --format="value(name)") for disk in $disks do gcloud compute disks snapshot $disk \ --snapshot-names=$disk-$now \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --project=project-id \ --async done
by Ulysses
Here’s how to get your project quotas in GCP.
gcloud compute project-info describe --project your-project-id |
gcloud compute project-info describe --project your-project-id
by Ulysses
Here’s how to get Regional Quotas for your project in GCP.
gcloud compute regions describe us-central1 --project your-project-id |
gcloud compute regions describe us-central1 --project your-project-id
by Ulysses
You can monitor the success or failure of a service account in GCP.
gcloud policy-intelligence query-activity \ --activity-type=ACTIVITY_TYPE \ --project=PROJECT_ID \ --limit=LIMIT |
gcloud policy-intelligence query-activity \ --activity-type=ACTIVITY_TYPE \ --project=PROJECT_ID \ --limit=LIMIT
The two options you can use for ACTIVITY_TYPE are:
by Ulysses
Instead of the GCP Console, you can reset Windows Server password via gcloud.
gcloud compute reset-windows-password server-name \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project project-id |
gcloud compute reset-windows-password server-name \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project project-id
Username and password will generated.
by Ulysses
I’m having trouble logging in using Google SDK Compute SSH on a Mac Terminal.
Here’s the fix.
gcloud compute ssh USERNAME@SERVER --zone ZONE --project PROJECTID --internal-ip 2>&1 |
gcloud compute ssh USERNAME@SERVER --zone ZONE --project PROJECTID --internal-ip 2>&1
There was an issue with a redirect to another shell.
by Ulysses
How to add startup and shutdown scripts on GCP Compute Engine.
Startup Script
gcloud compute instances add-metadata servername \ --project project-id \ --zone us-central1-c \ --metadata=startup-script='#! /bin/bash sudo -i echo "Time: $(date)" >> /tmp/date.txt' |
gcloud compute instances add-metadata servername \ --project project-id \ --zone us-central1-c \ --metadata=startup-script='#! /bin/bash sudo -i echo "Time: $(date)" >> /tmp/date.txt'
Shutdown Script
gcloud compute instances add-metadata servername \ --project project-id \ --zone us-central1-c \ --metadata=shutdown-script='#! /bin/bash # Shuts down Apache server /etc/init.d/apache2 stop' |
gcloud compute instances add-metadata servername \ --project project-id \ --zone us-central1-c \ --metadata=shutdown-script='#! /bin/bash # Shuts down Apache server /etc/init.d/apache2 stop'