To achieve this, you can use the paramiko library in Python, which allows you to SSH into a server and execute commands. Below is the Python script that you can run on your local machine, which will SSH into the GCP instance, create a file named test.txt in the home directory, and print “file created successfully”.

First, you need to install the paramiko library if you haven’t already:

pip install paramiko

Then, you can use the following script:

import paramiko

# Define the server and login credentials
hostname = '10.127.8.74'
port = 22  # Default SSH port
username = 'your_username'  # Replace with your username
password = 'your_password'  # Replace with your password or use key authentication

# Create an SSH client
client = paramiko.SSHClient()

# Automatically add the server's host key (if missing) to the list of known hosts
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

try:
    # Connect to the server
    client.connect(hostname, port, username, password)

    # Execute the command to create the file
    stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command('touch ~/test.txt')

    # Print the output and errors (if any)
    print(stdout.read().decode())
    print(stderr.read().decode())

    print("file created successfully")

finally:
    # Close the connection
    client.close()

Explanation:

1. paramiko.SSHClient(): Creates an SSH client.
2. set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy()): Adds the server’s host key to the known hosts automatically.
3. connect(): Connects to the server using the provided hostname, port, username, and password.
4. exec_command(): Executes the Linux command to create the file (touch ~/test.txt).
5. read().decode(): Reads and decodes the standard output and error.
6. client.close(): Closes the SSH connection.

Note:

• Replace your_username and your_password with your actual username and password for the GCP instance.
• If you’re using an SSH key for authentication instead of a password, you need to adjust the connection part as follows:

# Replace password-based connection with key-based
key_path = '/path/to/your/private/key'  # e.g., ~/.ssh/id_rsa
key = paramiko.RSAKey(filename=key_path)
client.connect(hostname, port, username, pkey=key)

Save this script as, for example, create_file.py, and run it from your local machine. It will SSH into the specified GCP instance and create a test.txt file in the home directory.

I did try many times but not able to achieve the result.