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A beginner's guide to setup Mosh roaming terminal on Mac to access Google Cloud Compute Engine instance

Being new to training ML models using Google Cloud VM instances, I faced issues where my ssh connection to the cloud instance (using either the clound web-based ssh client or using cloud shell) would disconnect from time to time (for example when I power off my laptop or the network gets disconnected) which would terminate the model training process. Therefore I searched for a ssh client that can handle disconnection and can resume connection without disrupting the process running on the server and came across with Mosh mobile shell, a remote terminal app that supports roaming.

It took me a while to figure out how to set up a third party ssh terminal using the google cloud OAuth. Here's a step-by-step guide:

Update: a simpler alternative for persisting remote sessions

Since this writing, another Mosh user kindly advised me that using terminal multiplexer co

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#!/bin/bash
echo 'Requires Ubuntu = 16.04 and installs Nginx + uWSGI + Web2py'
# Check if user has root privileges
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "You must run the script as root or using sudo"
   exit 1
fi
# parse env vars
WEB2PY_PASS="${WEB2PY_PASS:-0}"
NOPASSWORD="${NOPASSWORD:-0}"