Start and stop GCP VM from terminal

tminima · March 13, 2019, 5:14pm

By going through the setup process from the fastai setup docs I was able to make the GCP VM using Google CLI. But I don’t want to go to the web dashboard every time I want to start and stop the instance. So I looked around and found the solution.

I have written the bash scripts to start and stop an instance. You can also combine starting and logging in into a single script. You can find the script in the following github gist. I have tested these scripts on Linux and MacOS, only.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/TrigonaMinima/e5788304ce8aca7f091ba919eaaa275a

gcp_create_instance.sh

#!/bin/bash
export PROJECT_NAME="your_project_name"
echo "Selected project - "$PROJECT_NAME
gcloud config set project $PROJECT_NAME

export IMAGE_FAMILY="pytorch-latest-gpu" # or "pytorch-latest-cpu" for non-GPU instances
export ZONE="us-west2-b" # budget: "us-west1-b"
export INSTANCE_NAME="your-instance-name"
export INSTANCE_TYPE="n1-highmem-8" # budget: "n1-highmem-4"

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gcp_login.sh

#!/bin/bash
export PROJECT_NAME="your_project_name"
echo "Selected project - "$PROJECT_NAME
gcloud config set project $PROJECT_NAME

export INSTANCE_NAME="your-instance-name"
export ZONE="us-west2-b" # budget: "us-west1-b"

echo "Logging in..."
gcloud compute ssh --zone=$ZONE jupyter@$INSTANCE_NAME -- -L 8080:localhost:8080

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gcp_start.sh

#!/bin/bash
export PROJECT_NAME="your_project_name"
echo "Selected project - "$PROJECT_NAME
gcloud config set project $PROJECT_NAME

export INSTANCE_NAME="your-instance-name"
export ZONE="us-west2-b" # budget: "us-west1-b"

echo "Starting..."
gcloud compute instances start --zone=$ZONE $INSTANCE_NAME

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Just replace the project name and instance name with your respective project and instance names.