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How to mount a GCP compute instance filesystem locally using `sshfs` on MacOS

How to mount a GCP compute instance filesystem locally using sshfs

This guide assumes that:

  • you already have an instance set up on GCP that you want to mount locally
  • the GCP CLI (gcloud) is installed on your local machine
  • you have authenticated locally to your google account gcloud auth login
  1. make sure your gcloud config is correct for the instance you're trying to access: