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Remote development with VSCode & GCloud Compute Engine

Set up GCloud Compute Instance

  1. Create instance
  2. Create ssh key for remote host access locally: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C {host_username}
  3. Add ssh public keys to .ssh/authorized_keys on the host side
  4. Connect to host via ssh {host_username}@{host_ip}

If you want to use a specific port for local preview it needs to be available by setting up a firewall rule:

  1. Create new rule for a tag:
gcloud compute firewall-rules create rule-allow-tcp-{desired_port} --source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags allow-tcp-{desired_port} --allow tcp:{desired_port}
  1. Attach created tag to an instance:
gcloud compute instances add-tags {instance_name} --tags allow-tcp-{desired_port}
  1. Example
gcloud compute firewall-rules create rule-allow-tcp-8080 --source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags allow-tcp-8080 --allow tcp:8080

gcloud compute instances add-tags instance-1 --tags allow-tcp-8080

gcloud compute firewall-rules list
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embarq commented Nov 28, 2019

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