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GCloud in a Docker Container

You can run a gcloud commands in a Docker container.

docker run -ti --name gcloud-config google/cloud-sdk:latest

Create an alias.

alias gcloud='docker run --rm -ti --volumes-from gcloud-config google/cloud-sdk:latest gcloud'

Run the command.

gcloud --version
Google Cloud SDK 348.0.0
alpha 2021.07.09
app-engine-go 1.9.71
app-engine-java 1.9.90
app-engine-python 1.9.93
app-engine-python-extras 1.9.93
beta 2021.07.09
bigtable 
bq 2.0.70
cbt 0.10.0
cloud-datastore-emulator 2.1.0
cloud-firestore-emulator 1.13.0
cloud-spanner-emulator 1.2.0
core 2021.07.09
datalab 20190610
gsutil 4.65
kpt 0.39.3
local-extract 1.2.0
pubsub-emulator 0.4.1

Create one for gsutil.

alias gsutil='docker run --rm -ti --volumes-from gcloud-config google/cloud-sdk:latest gsutil'

AWSCLI in Docker Container

This will download the latest awscli and run it in a container.

A new container will be built every time the command is run.

Your current credentials in ~/.aws will be used.

docker run --rm -it -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws amazon/aws-cli:latest

Create an alias for convenience.

alias aws='docker run --rm -it -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws amazon/aws-cli:latest'

You can now run any aws cli after.

aws --version
aws-cli/2.2.20 Python/3.8.8 Linux/5.4.0-66-generic docker/x86_64.amzn.2 prompt/off

GCP Rename VM

There’s a new beta command to rename a GCP VM.

You must stop instance first.

gcloud compute instances stop server-name \
--zone us-central1-c \
--project your-project-id

Rename the instance.

gcloud beta compute instances set-name old-server-name \
--new-name=new-server-name \
--zone us-central1-c \
--project your-project-id

Start the instance.

gcloud compute instances start server-name \
--zone us-central1-c \
--project your-project-id

Login.

gcloud compute ssh server-name \
--zone us-central1-c \
--project your-project-id \
--internal-ip &