Skip to content
| Marketplace
Sign in
Visual Studio Code>Other>Remote - Cloud ShellNew to Visual Studio Code? Get it now.
Remote - Cloud Shell

Remote - Cloud Shell

Nibs

|
285 installs
| (0) | Free
Use Google Cloud Shell as your development environment.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
Copied to clipboard
More Info

Remote - Cloud Shell

Overview

Google Cloud Shell provides instant access to a Debian instance with 5GB of persistent storage and a variety of pre-installed tools.

Remote - Cloud Shell is a VS Code extension that enables users to connect to their Google Cloud Shell instance as their remote development environment. It generates SSH commands and configs and integrates these with Remote-SSH configuration.

Installation

  1. Install the extension from the VS Code marketplace.
  2. Ensure you have the Google Cloud SDK (gcloud) installed and authenticated.
  3. Install the Remote - SSH extension, which this extension depends on.

Usage

  1. Open VS Code.
  2. Use the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) to run Remote-Cloud-Shell: Add ssh ssh host...
  3. Copy the provided SSH command into the input box.
  4. Run the Remote-SSH: Connect to Host command with your new Google Cloud Shell configuration.

Adding new host to SSH configurations

Troubleshooting

If gcloud is not configured in your PATH environment variable, set the below user setting to the gcloud bin folder.

"remote-cloud-shell.gcloudPath": "/folder/that/contains/gcloud/tool"

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Privacy
  • Manage cookies
  • Terms of use
  • Trademarks
© 2025 Microsoft