Here’s how to extend an ext4 boot volume.
gcloud compute disks resize DISK_NAME --size DISK_SIZE --zone ZONE --project PROJECTID |
Resize the file system. Example / is on sda3.
growpart /dev/sda 3 resize2fs /dev/sda3 |
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GCP Project Quotas
Here’s how to get your project quotas in GCP.
gcloud compute project-info describe --project your-project-id |
GCP Regional Quotas
Here’s how to get Regional Quotas for your project in GCP.
gcloud compute regions describe us-central1 --project your-project-id |
GCP Windows Password Reset
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 |
Username and password will generated.
GCP Compute Startup Script
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' |
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' |
Set Terminal Browser to Firefox
Every time I log in to Google Cloud, it’s using the Chromium.
Set BROWSER env to Firefox instead.
export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox |
Login to GCP. It should open up Firefox browser instead of Chromium.
gcloud auth login |
Add it your .bashrc or .bashprofile if you want it to be permanent.
GCP gcloud compute scp
Here’s how to download/upload files using gcloud compute scp.
Make sure you are authenticated.
gcloud auth login |
How to download.
gcloud compute scp --recurse your-server:/home/username/yaml.tar.gz . \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip |
How to upload.
gcloud compute scp --recurse yaml.tar.gz your-server:/home/username/ \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip |
GCP list firewall rule by name
Here’s how to list a GCP firewall rule by name.
gcloud compute firewall-rules list \ --filter="name=('wowza-rtmp')" \ --format=json |
You can use different formats. Supported formats are:
config, csv, default, diff, disable, flattened, get, json, list, multi, none, object, table, text, value, yaml