Questions tagged [google-compute-engine]

Google Compute Engine offers scalable and flexible virtual machine computing capabilities in the cloud.

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Where does gcloud store its defaults?

Following this Quickstart I set a default project like this $ gcloud config set project lfs258 Updated property [core/project]. $ gcloud config get-value project lfs258 The project lfs258 doesn't exist on my GCP account, though, so I'm surprised…
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Can't open port 8080 on Google Compute Engine running Debian

I am trying to run a simple Python http server that displays "hello world" on port 8080 using a micro instance. I also have 4 instances of Tornado running behind Nginx. Connecting to Nginx/Tornado on port 80 is not a problem. I have added port 8080…
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How to store data in GCS while accessing it from GAE and 'GCE' locally

There's a GAE project using the GCS to store/retrieve files. These files also need to be read by code that will run on GCE (needs C++ libraries, so therefore not running on GAE). In production, deployed on the actual GAE > GCS < GCE, this setup…
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Is there a way to access google cloud SQL via proxy inside docker container

I have multiple docker machines(dev,staging) running on Google Compute Engine which hosts Django servers(this needs access to Google Cloud SQL access). I have multiple Google Cloud SQL instances running, and each instance is used by respective…
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How do I automatically restart a GCE preemptible instance?

How do I automatically restart a preemptible Google Compute Engine instance? I only have one instance that doesn't need 100% uptime but that I would like to restart once the data center becomes unloaded again. The instance/server that I'm trying…
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Google Compute Engine - Clone Instance

I have a GCE instance that I have customised and uploaded various applications to (such as PHP apps running under Apache). I now want to duplicate this instance - i.e. everything on it. I originally thought clone might do this but I had a play…
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How do I create a persistent volume claim with ReadWriteMany in GKE?

What is the best way to create a persistent volume claim with ReadWriteMany attaching the volume to multiple pods? Based off the support table in https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes, GCEPersistentDisk does not support…
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Error. Your card doesn't support automatic recurring payments-Google cloud

When I'm trying to authenticate my card with Google cloud I'm getting this error. Your card doesn't support automatic recurring payments [QR-CC3ST-02]. I got my otp and I had successfully authenticated. I also got message from my bank saying…
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What are the differences between Network and HTTP(s) load balancer in GCP

GCP provides two load balancers namely Network and HTTP(s) where the former works on layer 4 and the later works on layer 7. There is also a documentation which states that even HTTP traffic can be load balanced by a network load balancer. This…
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Some 502 errors in GCP HTTP Load Balancing

Our load balancer is returning 502 errors for some requests. It is just a very low percentage of the total requests, we have around 36000 request per hour and about 40 errors per hour, so just a 0,01% of the requests returns an error. The instances…
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Docker: go get from a private GitHub repo

I'm trying to run a container that will expose a golang service from a package that I have on a private GitHub repo. Since I am working with GCE, my starter image is google/debian:wheezy. After installing all the required dependancies and tools, I…
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google cloud instance terminate after close browser

I have a bash script. I would like to run it continuously on google cloud server. I connected to my VM via SSH in browser but after I've closed my browser, script was stopped. I tried to use Cloud Shell but if I restart my laptop, script launches…
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Is it possible to copy a directory from a Google Compute Engine instance to my local machine?

With scp I can add the -r flag to download directories to my local machine via ssh. When using: gcloud compute scp -r it sais that '-r' is not an available option. Without -r I get an error saying that my source path is a directory. (Implying I…
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Which Google Cloud Platform service is the easiest for running Tensorflow?

While working on Udacity Deep Learning assignments, I encountered memory problem. I need to switch to a cloud platform. I worked with AWS EC2 before but now I would like to try Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will need at least 8GB memory. I know how…
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Google Cloud: Compute VM Instances

How do I get root access to my Google VM instance, and also how can I log into my VM Instance from my PC with a SSH client such as putty? I would also like to add that I have tried to do sudo for things that need root access to do those things, such…
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