Instances

From the Coursera part 2 google cloud course

• Check out premptible instances - 80% cheaper
• Tags are used for network and firewall rules

Accessing Instances

• Linux machines use SSH to connect
• External SSH access requires a firewall rules that opens port 22 and instance must have an external ip address
  • Can specify CIDR in firewall rules to restrict SSH access to particular machines/IP ranges
  • look up target tags to manage this

Instance States

Provisioning --> Staging --> Running --> Stopping --> Terminated