https://github.com/rjkroege/gocloud

Some simple tools for using GCP
https://github.com/rjkroege/gocloud

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Some simple tools for using GCP

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rjkroege/gocloud
• Owner: rjkroege
• License: other
• Created: 2020-12-13T11:23:22.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-21T13:58:23.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-27T09:09:37.892Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 284 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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Some tools to help use Google Cloud compute nodes.

* Run `sessionender` as part of launching a new node that you intend to use interactively.

It shuts the node down when the login tty has been idle for more than a configurable

value (default is 15 minutes) to save money.

* `makecloudconfig` assembles a single cloudconfig file for a GCP COS node out of a list

of services. This makes it easy to pack a number of Docker containers into a single node.

Presumably I could have used Kubernetes or `docker compose` or something similar to do

this but this was easy, predictable and cheap.

* `gocloud`  tool to launch a GCP node without using `gcloud`. Smaller and faster than

using `gcloud` but does so much less. How to use:

	* make a configuration file in [TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language](https://toml.io/en/) toml format

		```toml

		defaultzone = "us-east1-b"

		projectid = "liquiorg"

		[instance.smallnodisk]

			hardware = "e2-small"

			family = "cos-cloud"

			userdatafile = "path to your couldconfig file name"

			githost = "Git repository to checkout for system setup"

			postsshconfig = "Script to run on node bringup"

		```

	

	* Make one:

		```shell

		gocloud make smallnodisk myinstance

		```

	

	* I have some related tooling to provision the node. A bare node needs

	a useful `cloudconfig` file, a configured service account, etc.

	* I use the [mkconfig](https://github.com/rjkroege/mkconfig) tool to setup a node from

	within the cloudconfig file.

	* On MacOS, `gocloud` wants to read selected configuration that it will push to the GCP

	metadata service from the MacOS KeyChain. The `gocloud show-meta` subcommand

	will show if this is configured correctly.