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