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GCP Backup Instance

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

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.

Google SDK SSH Mac Terminal

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

There was an issue with a redirect to another shell.

GCP Reset Windows Password

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

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

GCP Terraform Second Drive

How to add a second drive on GCP Compute Engine using Terraform.

provider "google" {
  project = "your-project-id"
  zone    = "us-central1-c"
}
 
resource "google_compute_disk" "data-drive" {
  name = "data-drive"
  type = "pd-standard"
  zone = "us-central1-c"
  size = "20"
}
 
resource "google_compute_attached_disk" "attach-data-drive" {
  count    = 1
  disk     = google_compute_disk.data-drive.id
  instance = google_compute_instance.test.id
}
 
resource "google_compute_instance" "test" {
  name         = "test"
  machine_type = "e2-micro"
 
  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "rocky-linux-cloud/rocky-linux-8"
    }
  }
 
  scheduling {
    preemptible       = true
    automatic_restart = false
  }
  network_interface {
    network = "default"
    access_config {
    }
  }
}