Send feedback Connect using SSH to a Dataproc cluster Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. You can open an SSH session on a Dataproc cluster node using the Google Cloud console or Google Cloud CLI.
Console In the Google Cloud console, go to the VM Instances In the list of virtual machine instances, click SSH in the row of the Dataproc VM instance that you want to connect to. A browser window opens in your home directory on the node.
Connected, host fingerprint: ssh-rsa ... Linux cluster-1-m 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 ... ... user@cluster-1-m:~$ You can also connect using SSH to a Dataproc cluster node from the VM Instances tab on the Dataproc Cluster details page in the Google Cloud console. Google Cloud CLI Run the gcloud compute ssh command in a local terminal window or from Cloud Shell to connect using SSH to a cluster VM node.
gcloud compute ssh cluster-VM-name \ --zone=zone \ --project=project-id Example (the default name for the master node is the cluster name followed by an -m suffix):
gcloud compute ssh cluster-1-m \ --zone=us-central-1-a \ --project=my-project-id ... Linux cluster-1-m 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u6... ... user@cluster-1-m:~$ Send feedback
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