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 Connect using SSH to a Dataproc cluster  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   
page. 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:~$  
  
  
  
  
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