simple commands

copy files from local to remote

> gcloud compute copy-files [LOCAL_FILE_PATH] [INSTANCE_NAME]:~/

i.e:

> gcloud compute copy-files localfile.txt gcloud-instance:~/

also possible to go from remote to local

> gcloud compute copy-files [INSTANCE_NAME]:[REMOTE_FILE_PATH] [LOCAL_FILE_PATH]

list compute instances

> gcloud compute instances list