Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

SCP access

In addition to SSH, gcloud also provides a convenient method for copying files between machines, using the gcloud compute scp command. Note that this command does not work for Windows VMs. This is very similar to traditional SCP commands, where the remote machine is specified as the instance's name. For the VM we just created, we can copy a file to the machine using the following commands from within the Cloud Shell:

# Create a file to copy to the remote machineecho “Testing SCP on Compute Engine” > hello.txt# Copy the file to the hello-gce instance using SCPgcloud compute scp --zone=us-east1-b hello.txt hello-gce:~/hello.txt# Print the remote filegcloud compute ssh hello-gce --zone=us-east1-b -- cat ~/hello.txt

Likewise, files ...