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brandones
brandones

Reputation: 1937

Can I use autossh for gcloud compute ssh?

For some reason ssh doesn't work to set up a tunnel to my Google Compute Engine instance. I have to use gcloud compute ssh. I'd really like to set up a persistent/resilient tunnel, like one gets with autossh. Is there any way I can do so using gcloud compute ssh?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1205

Answers (1)

Zachary Newman
Zachary Newman

Reputation: 21384

gcloud compute ssh simply copies your ssh key to the project sshKeys metadata (see Cloud Console > Compute Engine > Metadata > SSH Keys) and runs standalone SSH with the ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine key. To see the exact command line invoked, run gcloud compute ssh --dry-run .... Anything that's possible with typical SSH is possible with gcloud compute ssh.

Another option to investigate is gcloud compute config-ssh, which syncs your ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine SSH key to the project and sets up your ~/.ssh/config file so that you can run ssh without gcloud.

Upvotes: 5

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