I am being billed for an unused IP address. I can't find the item that's
charging me.
I've gone through the project using console.cloud.google.com looking in Compute Engine and Networking settings, but I can't find any IP addresses.
I'm only using the project for Cloud Storage of 1 text file, and a git
repository. I run these commands on the terminal, and I am getting 0 items.
$ gcloud --project=PROJECTNAME compute addresses list
The above command listed 0 items.
$ gcloud --project=PROJECTNAME compute forwarding-rules list
The above command listed 0 items.
Is there a way of telling where this static IP address is, or how I
can disable it? I can't find it anywhere. I'd rather not delete the entire
project because some of the services are being used by my production app.
I know that it's a global IP address because I can see it listed in my
Compute Engine quota. For me to be able to use a command line option to delete the address, I think that I need the name of the address, but I can't find that listed anywhere.
I'm thinking this could be related to me having one of these two
things enabled for the project in the past:
I was running an AppEngine project, but have since terminated it.
For the AppEngine project, I registered a custom domain to point
to it.
I had used AppEngine Flexible (aef). The unused IP was from my stopped version. This blocks the releasing of the static IP and so it was advised to first delete this version before trying to release the IP address again.
You cannot delete your previous version if that's the only one you have as you need to have at least one version for the default module.
To fix you could deploy a new version, say a Flexible VM (deployed to another region), or a Standard VM. Then as a workaround, if you do not have any app to replace it right now, you can deploy an empty app instead. You would need to create an app.yaml that uses only static files that does not have any script to execute so you would not be charged for any instance.
For a more detailed guide in doing this workaround, you may check this documentation [1].
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37679552/cannot-delete-version
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I'm trying to set up a Staging VM for a site that's in production that I have just inherited. The site is running Wordpress/Woocommerce and has not been updated in a while. The VM it's hosted on is running an old version of PHP. Obviously, this all needs to be fixed up but I'm unfamiliar with GCP Compute Engine. Also any attempt to run backup/clone plugins crashes the site and requires a restore from the daily snapshot which is very annoying.
Is it possible to clone the VM/disk to a new instance, point that at a temporary domain, and test/update the site? I have been trying to do this for a while now without much luck any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Creating a clone of an existing VM is possible and quite easy.
Create a snapshot of the VM. If possible stop the VM before doing this to ensure 100% accuracy - this way you will have exact snapshot of the drive without any errors. You can do it while the VM is running too if stopping it is out of the question.
Create a VM from the shapshot - select as a boot disk a snapshot that you've just created. Remember to assign a static public IP to this VM (unless you want it changed after VM restart and since you're going to do some configuration this would likely happen). You can change the VM's specs at this time too - nothing stops you from adding/removing CPU's, RAM etc. It may well be that your VM is underutilised and you can use something smaller to save costs. Or the opposite.
Start the machine. Now you can modify your WP configuration to point to a new domain. Depending on the SSL certificate - you can either use external one or the one provided by GCP (most convinient solution).
If you already own a domain you want to use for staging you can host it in Cloud DNS or at some other provider - just point it to the external IP you just reserved.
If you will be hosting your domain in the Cloud DNS then you will find necessary infomration in the documentation about managed zones (domains).
You can also consider creating a new VM and setting it as a template for creating a group of VM's (managed autoscaled group) and creating an external HTTPS load balancer in front of it. But this adds a little to the complexity so it's just my idea if you needed to handle a lot more traffic.
how to hostname and IP address of the instances deployment from the deployment manager for a particular deployment session?
I have seen it can be done via gcloud but I am looking for alternate via saving files through jinja
Also, would like to know if we can save via Jinja templates
need to know if there are any postscript available for gcloud deployment manager
for example, I have deployed 4 centos instances and now I need to create a config file using the above four instances and then go about starting services on all four.
I doubt it can be done through start-up script
You can simulate a creation of a vm instance reserving the desired IP, specifying the hostname and the start-up script where you start the services of your machines, then, check the REST file at the bottom of the page to see the actual labels used for that and where those should be used, but remember that for IP static assign you must reserve one or more first, for internals check this, for externals check this.
You can create an instance-templates based on this documentation[1] and deploying your VM/s with gcloud[2]. The Hostname and IP Address can be specified on the instance template itself:
gcloud deployment-manager deployments create [DEPLOYMENT_NAME]
--config [CONFIG.YAML]
I am not familiar with Jinja but based on Google doc [3], you can use it to create templates used by Deployment Manager.
You can also add a metadata resource in the template to use the startup-script[4]. Keep in mind that startup-script can simply download and execute a python/bash if it is come to be too complex.
I have a Linux VM on Google Compute Engine that I am accessing via SSH. It works just fine, but when I go to the Cloud Console, it asks me if I want to create a new VM as if I have none. I know I'm on the right account because it shows my billing balance has gone down.enter image description here Where did my server go?
It is weird. But it is important to make a differentiation that is not obvious once you start using Google Cloud Platform. The credentials you are using to access the Platform ( your email or a service account), the projects where an entity that any resource must be attached to and the billing account that is the payment profile that can have several projects associated.
In that case you could be in a different project, that is associated to the same billing account.
To check you can the project where your machine is, in the shell
Gcloud compute instances list
Here you will see the instances in your actual project. If nothing appears, reset gcloud configuration.
gcloud init
And change the project.
I'm trying to access my Google Compute Engine VM at 104.197.83.224. I tried to allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic but it errors out both times. It gives the error Invalid Fingerprint.
Could use some help. Thanks!
Also, although I haven't used my VM at all, I've gotten a bunch of requests on it. And its starting to charge me even though I'm not using it. How can I prevent that?
It sounds like you've stored a previous SSH key for that IP address in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. Check that file for entries that have the same IP address as your current instance and remove them.
Unfortunately, SSH assumes that IP addresses and SSH keys are assigned fairly statically (rather than using signatures from some central trust authority like SSL), which is a problem when you start to have cloud services which may assign the same IP address to different VMs several times during one day (if the VMs are started and shut down quickly, for example). I think that the gcloud ssh comm
I'm using gcutil to access Google Compute Engine instances.
I noticed that when I spin up a new instance, the new instance has a user that I used on a previous machine in this project.
I want to remove that user - not just from this machine, which of course I can do via the normal *nix processes, but, I want to ensure it is not used for any future Compute Engine instances.
How can I do this?
By default, once a user has run the gcloud auth login command and authenticated with the cloud project, their ssh key is added to the projects Compute Engine Common metadata, stored under the sshKeys key/value pair, these are then inherited by all instances within the project, providing access to login via ssh to the instances.
To prevent an existing user from having ssh permissions on a projects instances you will need to modify this value, keeping only the public keys of the users you wish to have access. This can be found in the Cloud Console within you project, under Compute Engine and then Metadata. In your case the all users may be you, just logged in from different clients.
However you cannot modify the existing metadata from there, you need to use the gcutil setcommoninstancemetadata command, to re-insert the modified sshKeys value (see https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/metadata#common), from my experimentation this appears to reset ALL common metadata for the project, so if you have more than just the default sshKeys set on your project, you will need to add them back in at the same time from the command line.