SSH to Google Compute Engine Instance Failing

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I created a simple f1 micro instance (Ubuntu 16.10) on Google Compute Engine. I had created a VPC (Networking) and allowed http/https. I explicitly created a Firewall rule to allow SSH (tcp:22). But I am not able to login to the VM instance.

I keep getting this error: enter image description here

Here is my Firewall Rule:

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How to fix this?

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Did you get an external IP? and assign it? – dartdog
@dartdog Yes, I added an external IP address as well. – ssk

2 Answers

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I was able to finally ssh into an instance by Choosing "Automatic" while creating a new VPC network instead of Custom and also chose allow ssh. This added default Firewall rules which were more accurate.

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For anyone that runs into this problem I reached out to Google support by email (who responded!!) and they instructed me to run the following commands from terminal (where I have gcloud installed):

If you haven't yet authenticated / or to set the correct project

gcloud auth login
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

This is the meat of it - setting the firewall rules.

gcloud beta compute firewall-rules create default-allow-ssh --allow tcp:22 --priority=65534

Also - use chrome - the interface seems to occasionally throw a fit whenever you use any other browser.