gcloud has had it, but as of at least a month ago there are terrible races. You can create a machine, log in with normal ssh, log in with cloud shell, and then

gcloud has had it, but as of at least a month ago there are terrible races. You can create a machine, log in with normal ssh, log in with cloud shell, and then the next normal ssh login will fail because cloud shell will modify the machine’s ssh keys. I once found a race in the UI, reported it with complete repro instructions, and then Google made me have to do a 30 minute hangout meeting where I had to repro the bug in front of the Google engineer. The call resulted in two different tickets... we found another bug. So gcloud might have some nicer features, but the engineees building the web app seem to have some basic misunderstandings about concurrency. The BigQuery UI (new one not the old one) is similarly riddled with bugs.