Your host
Your workstation
You test from your workstation, and from nothing else — it is the single source address the client authorized, which is what makes your traffic attributable and everyone else's not your problem. Everything on this page is yours alone.
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Start your workstation
Sign in to see your workstation.
Sign in to power your workstation on or off.
Your engagement identity
Your proof token goes in every screenshot, capture, and artifact you hand in. An artifact without it cannot be tied to you, and the network is identical for everyone in the cohort, so an address proves nothing.
——Your careers-portal password is on your assignment info sheet; the dashboard never holds it.
Connect to the desktop
RDP over the IAP tunnel
The connection steps appear here once your workstation exists and you are signed in.
Connect a terminal
The same tunnel on port 22, for a script, an scp or a proxy. You sign in here with your Google identity through OS Login, not with the desktop password.
—The tunnel command appears here once your workstation exists and you are signed in.
If the desktop refuses the password
The host is usually still finishing its first boot. Wait for the power panel above to read RUNNING and try once more before rebuilding anything.
