Cloud Workstations provides preconfigured, customizable, and secure managed development environments on Google Cloud. Cloud Workstations is accessible through a browser-based IDE, from multiple local code editors (such as IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate or VS Code), or through SSH. Instead of manually setting up development environments, you can create a workstation configuration specifying your environment in a reproducible way

1. Taipei
KAI CHU CHUNG
I/T Specialist, IBM
Cloud Workstation
Introduction PREVIEW

2. Agenda
1. Cloud Workstation Overview
2. Demo
3. Q & A

3. How to increase developer productivity with Cloud Workstations - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Dpmujxp9Q
IDEs and Development Tools
Cloud Shell - 2016
● Online pre-configured dev environment
● Terminal and basic code editor
Cloud Code - 2019
● Plugins for IntelliJ and VSCode
● Automation and Assistance in the IDE
● Support for GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud APIs and
more
Cloud Shell Editor - 2020
● Updated IDE with source control, debugger
and emulators
● Enable quick exploration of cloud services
Cloud Workstations - 2022
● Managed dev environments
● Fully-customized
● Security hardened

4. Cloud Workstation Introduction
● On-demand
environments
accessible anywhere
● Fully customizable
tool-chain
(Extensions,
Libraries, IDEs)
● Consistent
environments across
teams
● Test/Run code in your
real environment
● Security policies
● Managed base images

5. Cloud Workstation Overview
workstation clusters
Cloud Workstations overview | Google Cloud - https://cloud.google.com/workstations/docs/overview

6. Cloud Workstation Architecture
Cloud Workstations overview | Google Cloud - https://cloud.google.com/workstations/docs/architecture

7. Get Started

8. Clusters

9. Create Configuration - New Cluster

10. Create Configuration - Basic information
When enabling this
feature, a fixed number
of workstations will be
kept in a pre-started
state. This will result
in significantly faster
workstation start
times. These
pre-started
workstations are billed
to the project as
running workstations.

11. Create cluster
Asia Pacific
Asis-east1 (Taiwan)
Asis-southeast1(Singapore)

12. Create Configuration - Machine configuration
Machine type determines
the technical
capabilities of the VMs
that the workstations
created under this
configuration will run
on.
Workstations will be
automatically stopped if
they are idle for this
long. Workstations are
considered idle if they
don't receive user
traffic (e.g. SSH or HTTP
traffic).

13. Create Configuration - Machine configuration Cont.
Shielded VM features
include trusted UEFI
firmware and come with
options for Secure Boot,
vTPM, and Integrity
Monitoring.

14. Create Configuration - Environment customization
Managed workstation
images with preinstalled
code editors

15. Create Configuration - Environment customization Cont.
Cluster creation can
take up to 20
minutes, but cluster
creation is only
needed once in most
cases.

16. Configurations
Specifies how long to wait before
automatically stopping a workstation since
it last received user traffic.

17. Workstations - Create workstation

18. Workstations - Start workstation
Click START to
enable workstation

19. Develop Code

20. Base editor overview
base editor is built on top of the Code-OSS open
source project, supports IDE extensions provided
with the Open VSX Registry

21. Base editor - Cloud Code integration
Cloud Code
Easier to create apps
in Google Cloud

22. $ gcloud beta workstations start-tcp-tunnel
--project=gcp-10-mins
--region=asia-east1
--cluster=test-cluster
--config=config-hugo
--local-host-port=:22
workstation-l9ldryce 22
$ ssh user@127.0.0.1 -p 22
SSH support

23. SSH support with Remote Development using SSH
ssh user@127.0.0.1 -p 22

24. Preconfigured IDEs
Preconfigured IDEs | Cloud Workstations | Google Cloud - https://cloud.google.com/workstations/docs/preconfigured-ides

25. Jetbrain Gateway Overview
Host the source and the
IDE remotely, run a
client locally to
● provide the user
experience
● All code analysis
happens remotely
● User interface is
local
● Local editor, remote
source
● No local IDE
necessary
Local
Jetbrain
Gateway
Jetbrain
Client
Remote

26. Getting Start
● Download JetBrain
Gateway
● Install the Cloud
Workstation Plugin
● Connect to Google
Cloud
● Select a Workstation

27. It’s not Remote Desktop
A development-focused experience
rather than a general purpose tool.
● Remote desktop solutions
require a full round trip for
every keypress
● Gateway is optimized for
software development, the
client makes development feel
native
● Licensing is easy: it's handled
on the client-side, so any user
with a current license can
immediately use JetBrains
software on Cloud Workstations
How to increase developer productivity with Cloud Workstations - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Dpmujxp9Q

28. Setup and
Customize

29. Preconfigured base images Default
No IDE installed
JetBrains

30. Launch Code-oss in iPad Pro
JetBrain Goland via
JetBrain Gateway
Code-oss

31. Customize container images
Common Workstation Configuration Deeper customization via containers
$ docker build -t asia-east1-docker.pkg.dev/gcp-10-mins/devfest-2022/hugo-env:latest .
$ docker push asia-east1-docker.pkg.dev/gcp-10-mins/devfest-2022/hugo-env:latest

32. FROM us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-workstations-images/predefined/code-oss:latest
# Download Hugo
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ca-certificates openssl git curl &&
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/ &&
case ${VERSION} in
latest)
export VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/gohugoio/hugo/releases/latest | grep "tag_name" | awk '{pr
esac &&
echo ${VERSION} &&
wget -O ${VERSION}.tar.gz https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${VERSION}/${VARIANT}_${VERSION}_L
tar xf ${VERSION}.tar.gz &&
mv hugo /usr/bin/hugo
...
# Download Extension
RUN wget https://open-vsx.org/api/bungcip/better-toml/0.3.2/file/bungcip.better-toml-0.3.2.vsix &&
unzip bungcip.better-toml-0.3.2.vsix "extension/*" &&
mv extension /opt/code-oss/extensions/better-toml
Dockfile

33. Customize container images - Hugo env
gcloud alpha workstations start-tcp-tunnel --project=gcp-10-mins --cluster=test-cluster
--config=config-l9m86cup --region=asia-east1 workstation-l9m88m8f 1313 --local-host-port=:1313

34. Available machine types
*Fractional vCPU of 0.25, 0.5, or 1.0 with two vCPUs exposed to the guest operating system.

35. Demo

36. Resources

37. Cloud Workstations pricing
● Compute and Persistent Disk resources,
using the same rate you currently pay for
Compute Engine
● A workstation management fee of $0.05 /
vCPU hour (details)
● A control plane fee of $0.2 / hour
(details)
e2-standard-4 Cloud Workstation with 4 vCPU
and 16GB RAM, with a 100GB Persistent disk for
198 hours per month
● 198 Workstation hours per month at $0.32 per
hour equals $63 per month
● 100GB * $0.1 per GB = $10 per month (Persistent
disk)
● $10 + $63 = $73 per month

38. View Logs
protoPayload.serviceName="workstations.googleapis.com"

39. Known issues
Cloud Code for IntelliJ IDEA-based IDEs
The following features of the Cloud Code
for IntelliJ IDEA-based IDEs extension
are not available, due to limitations on
JetBrains Gateway:
● Debug on Kubernetes
● Debug a locally running Cloud Run
service

40. Quotas and limits
● Monitors your use or
consumption of Google
Cloud products and
services.
● Restricts your consumption
of those resources for
reasons including ensuring
fairness and reducing
spikes in usage.
● Maintains configurations
that automatically enforce
prescribed restrictions.
● Provides a means to make
or request changes to the
quota.
Limits per region per project
Limits for API requests

41. Quotas and limits
October 11, 2022
Cloud Workstations is now available in Preview. For more
information about using Cloud Workstations, see the
documentation.
Announcement

42. Q & A

43. Backup

44. Cloud Workstation Debug via GKE