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Start and stop Google Compute Engine for developing (keeps cost and resources down)
This script will start/stop Google Compute Engine vm instance, script starts a vm instance for anyone to use and test in a dev environment.
Once task are done simply exit out of ssh and the script will automatically turn off the vm instances.
You will need the GCLOUDSDK and setup ssh keys or os login for the vm instance.
Download to dir and chmod +x startopvm.sh (or whatever name you want to call it) and then enter the input of which vm instances you are using
./startopvm.sh project_name vm_instance zone #! /bin/bash gcloud info gcloud projects list # arguments Project=$1 #project id that you'll be working on vminsta=$2 #vm instances name that you are starting within that project id zone=$3 # zone of vm instance that is running in, this format will be in i.e --zone=us-central1-a gcloud config set project $Project gcloud compute instances list gcloud compute instances start $vminsta $zone gcloud compute ssh $vminsta $zone # An error exit function error_exit() { echo "$1" 1>&2 exit 1 } # Using error_exit if gcloud compute instances list --filter="status=running"; then echo "Instance name: $instances" else error_exit "Cannot start! Aborting." fi if echo "logout"; then gcloud compute instances stop $vminsta $zone echo "gcloud compute instances stopping" else error_exit "cannot stop" fi When you're done developing or testing simply enter exit in the ssh vm instance and the script will shutdown the vm instance.
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