- Recovering a root disk is a bit of a pain, surprising that there isn't a way to stop a vm/detach a disk and edit it elsewhere. the general pattern is:
- snapshot running? instance
- create new disk from snapshot
- attach disk to working VM
- modify disk
- clone old VM with new disk
- move over any stuff (IP, ..?)
- $300 startup credit won't let you play with SSDs
- no ipv6 support https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking#networks
- can't do tunnelbroker as 6in4 is unsupported (NAT/gateways won't pass proto-41)
- ubuntu doesn't actually use /etc/fstab.d/ for anything useful http://askubuntu.com/questions/168290/why-cant-mount-read-files-in-etc-fstab-d
- disabling :22 will make the 'ssh' button not work.
- "custom metadata" doesn't work the way I want it to - was hoping to get it passed as boot parameters or something, but no dice - you need to make API calls to fetch it https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/metadata
- had a crazy idea to do luks encryption with the fs key as metadata, no dice
- fusefs-type interface to the metadata stuff would be useful for cases like this
- no homebrew or pip packages for gcloud https://cloud.google.com/sdk/