SSH via IAP tunnel

Reach a VM with no public IP through Identity-Aware Proxy; no bastion needed

gcloud compute ssh <name> --zone <id> --tunnel-through-iap
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More gcloud commands

  • Read secret payload
    gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=<name> --project <id>

    Print latest Secret Manager version to stdout; pin a version in CI for repeatability

  • Storage rsync to bucket
    gcloud storage rsync -r -d ./build gs://<name>/site

    Mirror dir to GCS; -d deletes extras, modern replacement for gsutil rsync

  • Activate service account
    gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=key.json && gcloud config set project <id>

    Auth as SA in CI; note: prefer workload identity over long-lived key files

  • GKE kubeconfig credentials
    gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster> --region <id> --project <id>

    Fetch GKE kubeconfig; modern: needs gke-gcloud-auth-plugin in PATH since k8s 1.26

  • List instances with external IP
    gcloud compute instances list --format="table(name,status,EXTERNAL_IP)" --filter="status=RUNNING"

    Custom table of running VMs and public IPs via --format/--filter projections

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