GCE: cannot login, The VM guest environment is outdated and only supports the deprecated 'sshKeys' metadata item

Question

I cannot ssh into my Google Compute Engine (GCE) Wordpress instance anymore. It was working one month ago when I tried last. I use the Google built-in SSH client in a Chrome bro

Answer 1

I met the similar issue after I created a FreeBSD VM, gcloud ssh not works, but I am lucky that I can use the browser window ssh to my VM. Then I manually add the google_compute-engine public key to the .ssh/authorized_keys, now it work, I can use the gcloud ssh to connect. But not sure if this is a better/security way.