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

Using gcloud (provided as part of Google Cloud SDK) connect to your instance using SSH.

gcloud compute ssh instancename

If you are connecting for the first time, this will prompt you to create SSH keys. As part of this this will also create .ppk file which will be used to Putty to SSH into your instance.

Download and Install FileZilla

Goto Edit->Setting->SFTP

Click on Add Key File button, and point it to the PPK file generated.

Once this is done, you can connect to your instance using FileZilla SFTP. Specify your instance's public IP address in the host field (stfp://instanceipaddress). You would not need to specify any password.