[throwawaymath]

That's pretty cool, but they should really lock down outbound requests. You can send arbitrary curl requests to the public internet from their IP addresses (which are located in GCP). I'm not sure about mapping out the internal network, but that at least gives you a reliable proxy through Google Cloud.

[snazz]

SSH too. I found both Python (v2.7.13 and v3.5.3) and Perl v5.24.1 on the thing. After running ‘cat /etc/GLOBrelease’ (where glob is that pesky asterisk), I learn that it’s Debian 9, but according to ‘uname -a’ it’s Ubuntu. Fun!