Right in the middle of a workshop I was delivering, as I was launching Google Cloud console’s Cloud Shell environment, I received the dreaded warning message: no space left on device.

And indeed, I didn’t have much space left, and Cloud Shell was reminding me it was high time I clean up the mess! Fortunately, the shell gives a nice hint, with a pointer to this documentation page with advice on how to reclaim space.

After deploying in the cloud, there’s a new trend towards programming in the cloud. Although I’m not sure we’re quite there yet, there are a couple of handy tools I’ve been enjoying when working on the Google Cloud Platform.

I had been using the built-in Cloud Shell console, on the Google Cloud console, to have a terminal already pre-configured for my Google Cloud project. It allows you to easily have access to your whole environment, run commands, etc, just like you would from your own computer. The fact that all the command-line tools you can imagine (gradle, maven, gcloud sdk, etc) are already there is helpful, as well as the fact that you are already configured for using other cloud services.