I have been using FileZilla to manage files on my GCP VM using SFTP.

If you want to set up the keys for a specific VM instance only, go to Edit > SSH Keys > Show and edit > Add item on the instance page instead of using project’s Metadata page.Steve Eubanks Asks: FileZilla will not connect to Google Cloud VM after changing the SSH Keys On the bottom of the page, click Save and wait for the key to be saved.Click Add item button and paste contents of the clipboard to Enter public SSH key box (note how the username is automatically recognized).Go to Metadata page of your project on Google Cloud Platform.Copy a contents of Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file to the clipboard (note that the contents includes your username).Enter the username (an existing one or any other account name you want to be created) to the Key comment box.Set up SSH keys for your Google Compute account: Sudo ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key -E md5 Sudo ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key

The following example shows SHA-256 and MD5 fingerprints of Ed25519 hostkey: In the console, use ssh-keygen command to display a fingerprint of any number of host keys algorithms.

To securely acquire a fingerprint of the host key, use web-based SSH client in Google Cloud Platform (use SSH link on the VM Instances page).Host key fingerprint: On the first connect you will be prompted to verify a server host key.IP address: Check External IP column on Compute > Compute Engine > VM Instances page of your project on Google Cloud Platform.Collect information about your GCE instance:

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