Overcoming the 50 hour weekly limit quota for Google Cloud Shell

[obriensystems]

test quota limits using a persistent ssh tunnel to the cloud shell vm/docker image

biometric:wse_github michaelobrien$ gcloud auth list
Credentialed Accounts
ACTIVE ACCOUNT
[email protected]

•   [email protected]
  

To set the active account, run:
$ gcloud config set account ACCOUNT

Updates are available for some Cloud SDK components. To install them,
please run:
$ gcloud components update

To take a quick anonymous survey, run:
$ gcloud survey

biometric:wse_github michaelobrien$ gcloud config set account [email protected]

biometric:wse_github michaelobrien$ gcloud config set project biometric-dev
Updated property [core/project].

try
biometric:wse_github michaelobrien$ gcloud cloud-shell ssh --dry-run
Automatic authentication with GCP CLI tools in Cloud Shell is disabled. To enable, please rerun command with --authorize-session flag.
WARNING: The private SSH key file for gcloud does not exist.
WARNING: The public SSH key file for gcloud does not exist.
WARNING: You do not have an SSH key for gcloud.
WARNING: SSH keygen will be executed to generate a key.
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /Users/michaelobrien/.ssh/google_compute_engine
Your public key has been saved in /Users/michaelobrien/.ssh/google_compute_engine.pub
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:TAtBl0VZkX58lH/s/eAFQKyuxwUyUZuI4U4Qj8n1pT0 [email protected]
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 3072]----+
| oo= .===+o .|
| . B *o=.o+ ..|
| + * =.Eo o o.|
| o +o.o.. + =|
| . S+ . . +o|
| . . . +|
| o . . o.|
| . o . .|
| . |
+----[SHA256]-----+
Pushing your public key to Cloud Shell...done.
/usr/bin/ssh -t -p 6000 -i /Users/michaelobrien/.ssh/google_compute_engine -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no [email protected] -- DEVSHELL_PROJECT_ID=biometric-dev 'bash -l'

containerized.org
Cloud Shell has weekly usage limits. If you reach these limits you will need to wait before you can use Cloud Shell again.
1 of 60 hours used
Your quota resets on Mar 1, 2022, 1:31 PM