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Remotely connecting to the instance

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Remotely connecting to the instance

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- Remotely connecting to the instance. When you are working with Linux virtual machines, one of the common things you need to do sometimes is to SSH to the instance and remotely connect to it. The simplest way to do so is using the console. You can actually go to the instance and click on the little SSH button in there, and that will open a browser with an SSH shell session that you can use to connect to the instance. But you can also use GCloud with gcloud compute ssh command. Alternatively, you can also use a third-party SSH client, if you add an SSH key to the VM first and then you connect using that client, for example, PuTTY, or some other SSH client. What about Windows virtual machines? So here, you can connect to Windows virtual machines as well, where instead of SSH, it is RDP protocol, which will use in this case, the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Protocol. And you need a client, which is typically the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection app, or some alternative client…

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