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ryuzakinho
ryuzakinho

Reputation: 1919

How to use PyCharm with Google compute engine

I have a compute engine instance running on Google cloud platform.

I would like to use the Python interpreter of the compute engine as a remote interpreter with Pycharm. This means that I would be using Pycharm on my local machine and running computations remotely.

Any clue on how to achieve this?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 20497

Answers (3)

gidutz
gidutz

Reputation: 594

It's fairly easy to accomplish. You need:

  1. PyCharm Pro

  2. Create and format SSH keys

  3. Config your Compute Engine instance with the SSH keys

  4. Configure PyCharm

You can follow this tutorial that I wrote.

Upvotes: 1

patzm
patzm

Reputation: 1082

The following requires, as James Hirschhorn pointed out, the Professional verison of PyCharm.

  1. Assign a public IP to the remote machine on GCP.
  2. Run gcloud compute config-ssh to automatically add the VMs of your project to your ~/.ssh/config or manually add the public IP of your VM to it. If you skipped step 1. then you have to run gcloud compute config-ssh every time you re-start the remote VM, because it always gets a new IP assigned. The ~/.ssh/config gets populated with many entries in the following format: 
    Host the-vm-host-name  # use this in PyCharm's Host field
    HostName 123.456.789.00  # the VM's IP address
  3. Use the Host name of the remote you want to connect in your Deployment configuration in PyCharm
  4. Add a remote interpreter: select the remote server from the drop-down (the one previously created) and point PyCharm to the executable python of your Python installation.
  5. Done

Upvotes: 12

James Hirschorn
James Hirschorn

Reputation: 7984

My understanding is that you need the Pycharm Ultimate Edition to support remote servers. If you have Ultimate, then you can follow these instructions.

Upvotes: 1

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