gcloud compute execute command remotely

Question

Currently, if I want to execute something on a VM, I copy files over like this:

gcloud compute --project  copy-files --zone  /         


        

Answer 1

A gcloud update that landed a week ago blocked passing ssh commands after '--' and effectively forces use of --command option for this. In this case use:

gcloud compute ssh --zone ZONE INSTANCE --command 'cd /tmp && python some.py'.