code-server instllation on google cloud

[OOassafOO]

I'm trying to install code-server on google cloud VM, and possibly missing something. My instillation:

curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh
sed -i.bak 's/auth: password/auth: none/' ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
sudo systemctl restart code-server@$USER
ssh -N -L 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 [user]@<instance-ip>

In the last command line should instance-ip be the EXTERNAL_IP address (for example by running: 'gcloud compute instances list')
and the user is $USER ?
for this setting I'm getting:
Permission denied (publickey)

also, which address should be added in the browser ?

thanks a lot for your time,
Assaf

[code-asher]

It looks like you are forwarding 8080 so you can just go to localhost:8080 in the browser. Also it looks like you are installing code-server on your local machine and then connecting to your VM via SSH? I think what you may want to do is install code-server on the VM so you would SSH first and then perform the installation. Then you can exit and do the SSH port forwarding. As for the permission denied error, have you uploaded your public SSH key to the VM? https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/connect/add-ssh-keys https://github.com/coder/code-server/blob/45aef719d32f23d65748662be3725035de723618/docs/requirements.md?plain=1#L19