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

Did it with a bit of a tangent; using the normal ssh client instead of gcloud compute:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine roman@ 'python /some/path/example.py'

The gcloud ssh key is located at ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine, which it uses. It also requires the external IP address of the instance instead of its name.