In this article, I will help you to setup FTP with FileZilla on google cloud to manage your files. You can connect, transfer and edit files on your VM Instance remotely. You can get simple and understandable steps to setup FileZilla on google cloud. Let’s have a brief look on PuTTY.

Before We Setup FTP With FileZilla On Google Cloud

Install PuTTYgen – We need to install PuTTYgen on our system. If you are working with Ubuntu you can check out our article How to Install PuTTY on Ubuntu Linux

Using PuTTY you can generate SSH Key. You can use this application to generate a private and public key pair in order to encrypt the connection between your Google Cloud instance and FileZilla.

Install FileZilla – We need to install FileZilla

You can get simple and understandable steps to install PuTTY on Ubuntu. Before we move into the installation, let’s have a brief look on PuTTY.

What is this PuTTY?

PuTTY is a very useful tool for remote access to server. PuTTY is the most popular SSH client toll. it is not only limited to the Windows operating system. You can also use this on Linux and macOS.

PuTTY supports many protocols such as SSH, SFTP, serial, Telnet, rlogin, SCP, etc. the PuTTY SFTP client used to securely transfer files between client computers with the SSH connection Learn Mor About Putty.

Postman is a most widely used API development environment that helps you to manage your APIs in every place of development from testing and debugging your APIs.

Makes API development easier,faster and better. Postman started as a Chrome Extension and quickly become one of the most used and popular API development tools by developers all over the world.

The Postman is available as a native app for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Although it is possible to install and use Postman as a Chrome app, You may have seen the yellow warning on the Postman Chrome app indicating that Google is deprecated Chrome apps.

Simple three steps to install Postman on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 using the Snap package.