Compute Engine on GCP and SSH to it¶

Go to the Compute engine service In the navbar you will see the metadata option in the ssh option paste the public key that you will generate

Steps¶

1. Generate the ssh key

   ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/<name of the ssh key> -C <username>
   

2. Copy the public key

   pbcopy < ~/.ssh/<name of the ssh key>.pub
   

3. Paste this public key in the metadata section ssh key and then save it.

now to connect with your terminal write the following command

ssh -i ~/.ssh/<name of the ssh key> <username>@<external/public ip address>

If you had already running instance and later you added the ssh key in metadata then you might have to add the user

sudo adduser <username>