Once servers are created, we can connect to them on Google Cloud using gcloud and ssh using our terminal.
- Click here to get instructions to setup gcloud
- We will be using Debian/Ubuntu instructions (on Windows System).
- Follow the instructions on the page. No need to install additional packages.
- Make sure to run gcloud init
- Use gcloud command from one of the hosts and connect to the host. It will generate new key with name google_compute_engine under ~/.ssh
- We can use this to connect to the servers directly using ssh with external ip
- For the first server set external ip as static
- Go to Instance -> expand menu -> View Network Details
- It will take us to VPC network
- Click on External IP addresses
- Change type for the first server (bigdataserver-1) from Ephemeral to Static
- Provide Name and Description (bigdataserver-1)
- Click on Reserve
- There is nominal cost associated with the static ip
- Make sure to copy private key on to the first server from which you want to manage all the other servers using meaningful names such as bigdataserver-2.
scp -i ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine dgadiraju@35.196.243.128:~/.ssh- Once the private key is copied, we should be able to connect from bigdataserver-1 using command like this –
ssh -i ~/ssh/google_compute_engine bigdataserver-2