cloud engineer
by Ulysses
How to find a boot disk from an instance.
gcloud compute instances describe servername \ --format='get(disks[0].source)' \ --zone=us-central1-c \ --project project-id |
gcloud compute instances describe servername \ --format='get(disks[0].source)' \ --zone=us-central1-c \ --project project-id
Result
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project-id/zones/us-central1-f/disks/servername-boot |
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project-id/zones/us-central1-f/disks/servername-boot
by Ulysses
Here’s the script to backup GCP disks.
#!/bin/bash now=$(date +%s) disks=$(gcloud compute disks list --project project-id --filter="users:instance" --format="value(name)") for disk in $disks do gcloud compute disks snapshot $disk \ --snapshot-names=$disk-$now \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --project=project-id \ --async done |
#!/bin/bash now=$(date +%s) disks=$(gcloud compute disks list --project project-id --filter="users:instance" --format="value(name)") for disk in $disks do gcloud compute disks snapshot $disk \ --snapshot-names=$disk-$now \ --zone=us-central1-a \ --project=project-id \ --async done
by Ulysses
Here’s how to get your project quotas in GCP.
gcloud compute project-info describe --project your-project-id |
gcloud compute project-info describe --project your-project-id
by Ulysses
Here’s how to get Regional Quotas for your project in GCP.
gcloud compute regions describe us-central1 --project your-project-id |
gcloud compute regions describe us-central1 --project your-project-id
by Ulysses
You can monitor the success or failure of a service account in GCP.
gcloud policy-intelligence query-activity \ --activity-type=ACTIVITY_TYPE \ --project=PROJECT_ID \ --limit=LIMIT |
gcloud policy-intelligence query-activity \ --activity-type=ACTIVITY_TYPE \ --project=PROJECT_ID \ --limit=LIMIT
The two options you can use for ACTIVITY_TYPE are:
by Ulysses
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 |
gcloud compute reset-windows-password server-name \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project project-id
Username and password will generated.
by Ulysses
I’m having trouble logging in using Google SDK Compute SSH on a Mac Terminal.
Here’s the fix.
gcloud compute ssh USERNAME@SERVER --zone ZONE --project PROJECTID --internal-ip 2>&1 |
gcloud compute ssh USERNAME@SERVER --zone ZONE --project PROJECTID --internal-ip 2>&1
There was an issue with a redirect to another shell.
by Ulysses
How to reset password of a GCP Compute Engine running on Windows OS.
gcloud compute reset-windows-password servername \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project your-project-id |
gcloud compute reset-windows-password servername \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project your-project-id
Output
This command creates an account and sets an initial password for the user [firstname_lastname] if the account does not already exist. If the account already exists, resetting the password can cause the LOSS OF ENCRYPTED DATA secured with the current password, including files and stored passwords. For more information, see: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems/windows#reset Would you like to set or reset the password for [firstname_lastname] (Y/n)? y Resetting and retrieving password for [firstname_lastname] on [servername] Updated [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/your-project-id/zones/us-central1-a/instances/servername]. WARNING: Instance [servername] does not appear to have an external IP address, so it will not be able to accept external connections. To add an external IP address to the instance, use gcloud compute instances add-access-config. password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx username: firstname_lastname |
This command creates an account and sets an initial password for the user [firstname_lastname] if the account does not already exist. If the account already exists, resetting the password can cause the LOSS OF ENCRYPTED DATA secured with the current password, including files and stored passwords. For more information, see: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems/windows#reset Would you like to set or reset the password for [firstname_lastname] (Y/n)? y Resetting and retrieving password for [firstname_lastname] on [servername] Updated [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/your-project-id/zones/us-central1-a/instances/servername]. WARNING: Instance [servername] does not appear to have an external IP address, so it will not be able to accept external connections. To add an external IP address to the instance, use gcloud compute instances add-access-config. password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx username: firstname_lastname