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GCP Spot Instance

You can save anywhere from 60-91% using a spot instance. The downside is, the instance can be preempted anytime.

Create a spot instance.

gcloud beta compute instances create spot-example \
--provisioning-model=SPOT \
--instance-termination-action=STOP \
--image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud \
--image-family=ubuntu-2004-lts \
--machine-type=e2-micro \
--project=your-project-id \
--zone=us-central1-a

Delete instance.

gcloud compute instances delete spot-example \
--project=your-project-id \
--zone=us-central1-a

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

Copy S3 to GCS

You can use gsutil to copy directly from a S3 bucket to a GCS bucket.

gsutil can read/write to a S3 bucket as long as it has access to your AWS credentials.

The -R option is recursive and -m is for multi-threaded or multi-processing.

gsutil -m cp -R s3://bucket/ gs://bucket

You can also use rsync instead of cp. Just be aware that rsync does not copy empty directory trees

gsutil -m rsync -r s3://bucket/ gs://bucket

If you plan to use -d, Use it with caution since it deletes content.