

Specify the -C flag to add a comment with the username on the instance for whom you will apply the key. Open a terminal on your workstation and use the ssh-keygen command to generate a new key-pair.

I first had to generate a new SSH key-pair on my OS X laptop, here is what I did:

I’m not so much for the command line, I just went for using the GCP web console to get this done. This was the first time for me to use GCP – so I was looking through the documentation that Google has provided, pretty straight forward using the GCP gcloud command line. I work on an OS X platform and FileZilla is my goto tool for uploading files to a server. This is how you can launch a WordPress site from GCP. To be able to upload files to the server and change permissions I needed to set up SSH access and to configure FileZilla. Please see FTP and SFTP FTP and SFTP FTP and SFTP to learn how to find these settings.I recently worked on a project to set up WordPress on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the setup of WordPress was straight forward in GCP with the Cloud Launcher. Username: Your primary domain or FTP username.Server IP address or your domain name Server IP address or your domain name.

