how to connect a cloud google server via cygwin for windows users?

Question

Well, that's should be easy, according to the document on: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/gcutil/

BUT it's not that simple...

Answer 1

@Aviram Netanel

What if you have:

(gcloud.components.update) Unable to fetch https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/release/components-2.json

after ./install.sh command?

Answer 2

1. install Cygwin (32 bit!) + the relevant libraries (packages): SSH, curl, python, g++, make, vim, etc'... as explained in this video tutorial (on minute 5)

2. install Python ( set ENV variable: CLOUDSDK_PYTHON to ...)

3. start cygwin and check if Python works: type python - you should see the version and the command line should change from $ to >>> (exit by ctrl+Z)

4. run curl command:

   $ curl https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/release/install_google_cloud_sdk.bash | bash

   • this didn't work for me. so I had to download & extract manually:

a.Download google-cloud-sdk.zip

b.Unzip the file by right-clicking on it and selecting Extract all.

c.copy the extracted library to: C:\\cygwin\\home\\

d.on the cygwin console type:

cd google-cloud-sdk

and then run the install.sh:

./install.sh

after done that, you can finally write the gcutil command given from google (on the VM instances table, under the "SSH" button)