How to use PyCharm with Google compute engine

Question

We need to use the Python interpreter of the compute engine as an interpreter with Pycharm. I need to use Pycharm on my local machine and running computations remotely.

Any clue on how to achieve this?

Answer 1

First, assign a public IP address to the remote machine on GCP.

Run gcloud compute config-ssh to add automatically the VMs of your project to your ~/.ssh/config or add public IP manually.

Use the Hostname of the remote to connect in your Deployment configuration in PyCharm

Select the remote server from the drop-down and point PyCharm to the executable python of your Python installation.

Thus you can use PyCharm interpreter with a compute engine.

For more details, refer to the below tutorial on google cloud training.