Cloud Shell can make your life simple. However, state is lost between cloud shell start ups and shut downs. This post walks through an actual example of how to persist state across cloud shell restarts.

  1. Create an ENV variable (my_project_id) and save it
mkdir myconfig

touch infraclass/config

MY_PROJECT_ID=[YOUR_PROJECT_ID]

echo MY_PROJECT_ID=$MY_PROJECT_ID >> ~/myconfig/config

2.. Add the above to the .profile file to store it across VM sessions

nano .profile

source myconfig/config (followed by Ctrl+O, ENTER to save the file, and then press Ctrl+X to exit)

3. Test it out. Close the shell session and start a new one.

echo $MY_PROJECT_ID



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