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

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What is the gcloud command to allow http traffic on a VM instance? (It's not create firewall rule!)

First, I wish to use purely gcloud commands to acheive my objective - NOT the GCE interface - so please don't provide answers using the GUI! I created an image from a disk attached to a VM instance. In order to do so, I had to delete the instance,…
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How do I add a startup script to an existing VM from the developer console?

I have an existing, already configured VM on Google Cloud Platform. It was created without a startup script, but I'd like to add one now. How do I add it from the console.developers.google.com web interface?
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google compute engine tool gcloud is exceptionally slow

I tried downloading and using the gcloud bash tool to manage my accounts, however everything I do with the tool is exceptionally slow. It will take MINUTES to reply to a command that is typed. Is there perhaps a firewall I need to open up on my…
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Blob.generate_signed_url() failing to AttributeError

So I'm trying to produce temporary globally readable URLs for my Google Cloud Storage objects using the google-cloud-storage Python library (https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/latest/storage/blobs.html) - more specifically the…
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Is 1 vCPU on Google Compute Engine basically half of 1 physical CPU core?

Google's Machine types page states that: For the n1 series of machine types, a virtual CPU is implemented as a single hardware hyper-thread on a 2.6 GHz Intel Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge), 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon E5 v2 (Ivy Bridge)...etc Assuming that a…
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Why doesn't my Gmail user/password work when deploying ASP.NET to Compute Engine inside Visual Studio?

I created a Compute Engine VM using the ASP.NET Cloud Launcher, and now I want to deploy to it from Visual Studio. I've created a publish settings file using the Visual Studio extension then tried to deploy using the regular Visual Studio "Publish"…
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Change Google Compute/Cloud Server to SSD Persistent Disk

I have a live production website running on a standard persistent disk. How do I safely upgrade this to an SSD disk? Is there a simple way to do it using the dashboard and not console commands? Just to be clear, it's fine to take the instance down…
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Compute Engine HTTP Load Balancing 502 error

We're having significant issues with our http load balancer from certain IPs only. I've seen a few other posts here about this. We've made sure the firewall is ok, I've even deleted and recreated the forwarding rules. Which is blasted annoying since…
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How to change a machine type on Google Compute Engine?

On Google Compute Engine, is there a way to change the machine type (for example, add cpu cores) after the machine was created?
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Google cloud compute engine always free tier

I am trying to run a compute engine instance using the always free tier option. The documentation of the free tier says if it is a computer engine instance of e2-micro from certain locations, it should be free. Here is the screenshot: Now, I have…
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GCE - different username if i use SSH or log in from terminal?

I created a new project with nothing in it. When I created my first micro instance I did the following Connect to it using the browser window SSH. I see: user_name@instance-1:~$ If I connect using the gcloud command: gcloud compute --project…
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How to create and rotate Automatic Snapshot?

On Compute Engine we can do Snapshots, which are basically backups. Could you try to figure out how we could create a script to do automated snapshots every day and keep like 4 snapshots, so basically after we have 4, delete the oldest one. This is…
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Cannot access Google Cloud Compute Instance External IP

I have set up an Google Cloud Compute Instance: Machine type n1-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory) CPU platform Intel Haswell Zone us-east1-c I can ssh in using the external address. I have installed the vncserver and can access it on…
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Migrate Google compute engine instance to a different region

I am trying to migrate a couple of compute engine instances from Europe to Asia. I need to do this because most of the users for those servers are in Asia and they get faster access to servers in their region. I am trying following command. gcloud…
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Docker Ignores limits.conf (trying to solve "too many open files" error)

I'm running a web server that is handling many thousands of concurrent web socket connections. For this to be possible, on Debian linux (my base image is google/debian:wheezy, running on GCE), where the default number of open files is set to 1000, I…
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