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Start and stop Google Compute Engine for developing (keeps cost and resources down)
This script will start/stop Google Compute Engine vm instance, script starts a vm instance for anyone to use and test in a dev environment.
Once task are done simply exit out of ssh and the script will automatically turn off the vm instances.
You will need the GCLOUDSDK and setup ssh keys or os login for the vm instance.
Download to dir and chmod +x startopvm.sh (or whatever name you want to call it) and then enter the input of which vm instances you are using
./startopvm.sh project_name vm_instance zone
#! /bin/bash
gcloud info
gcloud projects list
# arguments
Project=$1 #project id that you'll be working on
vminsta=$2 #vm instances name that you are starting within that project id
zone=$3 # zone of vm instance that is running in, this format will be in i.e --zone=us-central1-a
gcloud config set project $Project
gcloud compute instances list
gcloud compute instances start $vminsta $zone
gcloud compute ssh $vminsta $zone
# An error exit function
error_exit()
{
echo "$1" 1>&2
exit 1
}
# Using error_exit
if gcloud compute instances list --filter="status=running"; then
echo "Instance name: $instances"
else
error_exit "Cannot start! Aborting."
fi
if echo "logout"; then
gcloud compute instances stop $vminsta $zone
echo "gcloud compute instances stopping"
else
error_exit "cannot stop"
fi
When you're done developing or testing simply enter exit in the ssh vm instance and the script will shutdown the vm instance.
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