Py-google-compute-engine

Jul 20, 2023

Guest Environment for Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine offers scripts and daemons which run in the background and provides the following services

  • Accounts daemon to setup and manage user accounts, and to enable SSH key based authentication.
  • Clock skew daemon to keep the system clock in sync after VM start and stop events.
  • Instance setup scripts to execute VM configuration scripts during boot.
  • IP forwarding daemon that integrates network load balancing with forwarding rule changes into the guest.
  • Metadata scripts to run user provided scripts at VM startup and shutdown.
  • Network setup service to enable multiple network interfaces on boot.


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  • Zsm - ZFS Snapshot Manager
  • Zsd - Destroys ZFS snapshots
  • Zrepl - ZFS dataset replication tool
  • Zrep - ZFS based replication and failover solution
  • Zpool-iostat-viz - ZFS pool I/O latency statistics
  • Zoxide - Fast cd alternative that learns your habits
  • Zogftw - Creates redundant backups on encrypted ZFS pools
  • Znapzend - ZFS-centric backup tool
  • Zisofs-tools - User utilities for zisofs
  • Zidrav - File corruption detection and repair program
  • Zfstools - OpenSolaris-compatible auto snapshotting for ZFS
  • Zfsnap2 - Portable performant script to make rolling ZFS snapshots easy
  • Zfsnap - Simple sh script to make zfs rolling snaphosts with cron