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July 20, 2021

Migrate VM to Other Network

Here’s how to move a VM to another network.

Stop the VM.

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

Migrate the VM. Use self link for network and subnetwork.

gcloud compute instances network-interfaces update server-name \
--zone=us-central1-c \
--network-interface=nic0 \
--network=your-network \
--subnetwork=your-sub-network \
--project project-id

Start the VM.

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

July 17, 2021

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'

May 27, 2021

GCP Compute Enable OS Login

If you have trouble logging in (SSH) to your GCP instance, you may have to enable OS Login.

gcloud compute instances add-metadata server-name \
--metadata enable-oslogin=TRUE \
--zone us-central1-c \
--project project-id

When done, you can set it back to FALSE.