Metadata - ssh keys

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• If you don't have one yet, create an shh key on your computer
• Compute Engine - Metadata - SSH Keys - Edit
• Paste the public key there

• Try to ssh to the instance from a regular SSH client.

alias xscp='scp -q -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'
alias xssh='ssh -q -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'