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GCP Project Quotas

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Here’s how to get your project quotas in GCP.

gcloud compute project-info describe --project your-project-id

GCP Regional Quotas

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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

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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

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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'

GCP gcloud compute scp

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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

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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

Migrate VM to Other Network

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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