How to ssh into GCP using Windows Terminal

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

As we live in a world of automation, it does not seem right to do work specially in a tech space manually. We need automation to effectively work and progress. You can read the entire tutorial on my GitHub.

YouTube-Videos/How to SSH into GCP using Terminal.md at main · datascientist-saad/YouTube-Videos

You can also view the tutorial on my YouTube channel. Video link is provided below:

There are three methods to access Google Cloud Platform project:

• Access via Chrome
• Access via Command Prompt
• Access via a custom Windows Terminal tab (best!!)

Process for Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Type “https://console.cloud.google.com/"
3. And you can access it!!

Process for Installing Google Cloud SDK:

1. Install Google Cloud SDK (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/downloads-interactive)
2. Click “Next”
3. Click “I Agree”
4. It’s installed!!

Process for Command Prompt (via PuTTy):

1. Open Windows Terminal
2. Then, open Command Prompt
3. Type “gcloud cloud-shell ssh”
4. And you can access it!!

Process for a custom Windows Terminal tab:

1. Open Windows Terminal
2. Go to Settings and click “Open JSON file”
3. Then add the following:

{ 
   "backgroundImage": "C:/Users/user/Downloads/Pictures/gcp.png",   
   "backgroundImageOpacity": 0.2, 
   "commandline": "wsl ~/ssh-gcloud-env.sh [email] [project_id]",
   "hidden": false, 
   "icon": "C:/Users/user/Downloads/Pictures/gcp.png", 
   "name": "SSH into GCP" 
 },

4. Then, open your wsl2 Ubuntu VM, and in your /home/user/ directory make a file named “ssh-gcloud-env.sh”. And type in the following commands:

gcloud auth login $1
gcloud config set project $2
gcloud cloud-shell ssh

Link for the file:

YouTube-Videos/ssh-gcloud-env.sh at main · datascientist-saad/YouTube-Videos

5. Save the file and type the following:

chmod +x ssh-gcloud-env.sh

6. Finally, go to your Windows Terminal and open the custom tab.

Yay! We did it!!! 🎉🎉🎉