Accessing FTP on Google Compute Engine

Question

I\'m running an instance on debian-7-wheezy and I\'m sort of new to the Google Compute Engine. I have looked through both the support requests on this site and the FAQ post on t

Answer 1

Looks like a similar question to this one , Adding same answer here too

At a high level, these are the steps:

1. Install and run the gcloud SDK ($ gcloud init)
2. Generate SSH key ($ gcloud compute ssh)
3. Setup the FTP client (install and add the key file)
4. Connect to the VM using the SFTP client

Assuming this question was asked here before this documentation from Google was available.

Also, I have recorded this, it might be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssfE6ODpak

And just an FYI .. if the files that you need to transfer are pretty small in size then maybe you don’t need a SFTP client. Transfer directly from the console as seen here https://youtu.be/HEdXEEYOynE