Unable to mount a directory on Google Compute Engine using sshfs

Question

I am trying to mount a remote filesystem on Google Container Engine. I am following this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh

Using following sshfs command:

sudo sshfs -o sshfs_debug,allow_other <instance-name>.<region>.<project_id>:/home/<user_name> /mnt/gce-container

I am getting error:

SSHFS version 2.5
read: Connection reset by peer

I referred this link https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/config-ssh and could login using ssh via following command:

$gcloud compute config-ssh
$ssh <instance-name>.<region>.<project_id>

Any ideas what might be going wrong here? I can't understand what keys and username should I use for sshfs login.

Update(11/5): I am using following command:

sshfs -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/google_compute_engine <user>@<ip>:~/  /mnt/gce`

I have chowned /mnt/gce folder for my user. I checked the IP matches the entry in ~/.ssh/config file. However I still get the error read: Connection reset by peer

Answer 1

The problem with command below is that

1) unless you have a static IP, it keeps changing on machine reboot

2) you need to use .pub file

sshfs -o IdentityFile=~/.ssh/google_compute_engine <user>@<ip>:~/  /mnt/gce

I finally got it working by following command:

sudo mkdir /mnt/gce
sudo chown <user> /mnt/gce

sshfs -o  IdentityFile=~/.ssh/google_compute_engine.pub <user_name>@<instance-name>.<region>.<project_id>:/home/<user_name> /mnt/gce