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hummmingbear
hummmingbear

Reputation: 2394

SSH Into GAE Standard Environment Instance

Has GCP made any updates yet that allow you to SSH into your GAE Instance when it's running on a Standard environment? I see a post from 2+ years ago saying this is not possible. Is that still so today?

Running in Flex environment ends up being $150/mo, and we have no reason to do that just for SSH access. It seems wild to me that Standard environment would not allow a way to SSH into your machine. Need to confirm before I switch providers that this is not possible

Upvotes: 1

Views: 743

Answers (1)

John Hanley
John Hanley

Reputation: 81454

Google App Engine Standard does not support SSH.

SSH requires a server to listen for connections from clients. App Engine Standard does not provide an operating system - only a framework. The SSH protocol is not part of that framework. There are other very popular services such as Cloud Run that also do not support SSH access.

SSH also requires a subsystem to store SSH keys and some form of identity. Those features are also not part of the App Engine Standard framework. Once logged in, SSH requires a command prompt, a set of tools that you can run from the command prompt, etc. Those features would dramatically change the environment.

If you require SSH access, then you will need to choose a service that provides that feature. As that usually requires an OS to support an SSH server, the costs are different.

Upvotes: 2

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