Google Cloud Platform Howto

To start an Instance:

gcloud compute instances start projects/trampotestproject/zones/us-east1-c/instances/instance-1

connect ssh:

gcloud compute ssh trampo-test-instance-1 --zone us-east1-c

Stop instance:

gcloud compute instances stop projects/trampotestproject/zones/us-east1-c/instances/instance-1

To resize the disk size of a cloud VM:

Command format: 

gcloud compute disks resize [DISK_NAME] --size [DISK_SIZE]

Example:

gcloud compute disks resize temp-translation-disk-11jlz --size 1024