Script to update GCP firewall rule to allow only your public IP

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I host my personal VM on Google Cloud Platform and access it mostly through SSH and HTTPS. As a hardening step, I've set up GCP firewall to only allow my home IP address. But my ISP changes my public IP pretty often, so I have to log in to the GCP console and change firewall rule there every time. I wrote a small Python script that automates this routine, and I thought maybe it could be useful to others.

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