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PlainH2O
PlainH2O

Reputation: 167

Is cloudshell machine type the same across GCP?

Pardon me, I'm a new learner and have a lot of newbie questions.

I couldn't find the information on cloudshell's machine type on Google's official documentation. On my end, I have e2-standard-2 as the machine type.

Is e2-standard-2 the provisioned machine type across the board for GCP's cloudshell?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 253

Answers (1)

Farid Shumbar
Farid Shumbar

Reputation: 1420

As mentioned by @norbjd, the official documentation doesn't specify the exact machine type of the Cloud Shell:

When you start Cloud Shell, it provisions a Google Compute Engine virtual machine running a Debian-based Linux operating system.

You can verify the machine type by running either of two commands in Cloud Shell:

  • wget -q -O - --header Metadata-Flavor:Google metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/machine-type
  • curl -s http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/machine-type -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google" provided by @PlainH2O.

Based on additional information povided by @JohnHanley, @PlainH2O and @norbjd, we can assume that free trial accounts are provisioned with e2-standard-2 while paid account are provisioned with e2-standard-4.

Upvotes: 1

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