Deploy an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop on Google Cloud Platform with RDP ready.

down.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Zone
ZONE=europe-west8-a

echo "Destroying cloud Ubuntu Desktop..."

gcloud compute instances delete ubuntu-desktop --zone=$ZONE --quiet
gcloud compute firewall-rules delete allow-rdp --quiet

echo "Cloud Ubuntu Desktop destroyed!"

up.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Zone
ZONE="europe-west8-a"
MACHINE_TYPE="n2-standard-4"

echo "Deploying cloud Ubuntu Desktop (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)..."

gcloud compute instances create ubuntu-desktop \
    --zone=$ZONE \
    --machine-type=$MACHINE_TYPE \
    --image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud \
    --image-family=ubuntu-2204-lts \
    --boot-disk-size=50 \
    --boot-disk-type=pd-ssd \
    --tags=http-server,https-server \
    --metadata=startup-script='#! /bin/bash
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y ubuntu-desktop-minimal
    sudo apt-get install -y xrdp
    sudo systemctl enable xrdp
    sudo systemctl start xrdp
    sudo ufw allow 3389/tcp
    '

EXTERNAL_IP=$(gcloud compute instances describe ubuntu-desktop --zone=$ZONE --format='get(networkInterfaces[0].accessConfigs[0].natIP)')

# Create a firewall rule to allow RDP connections to the VM if it doesn't exist
if ! gcloud compute firewall-rules describe allow-rdp; then
    gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-rdp \
        --allow tcp:3389 \
        --target-tags http-server,https-server
fi

# Wait for the VM to be ready to accept SSH connections
while ! nc -z $EXTERNAL_IP 22; do
    echo "Waiting for the VM to be ready to accept SSH connections..."
    sleep 5
done

# Connect to the VM SSH and change the root password to alfon
echo "Changing the root password to alfon..."
gcloud compute ssh ubuntu-desktop --zone=$ZONE --command="sudo su -c 'passwd << EOF
alfon
alfon
EOF'"
echo "Root password changed!"

# Wait for the VM to be ready to accept RDP connections
while ! nc -z $EXTERNAL_IP 3389; do
    echo "Waiting for the VM to be ready to accept RDP connections..."
    sleep 5
done

echo "Cloud Ubuntu desktop deployed!"
echo "Connect to it using RDP at $EXTERNAL_IP:3389 with user root and password alfon"