I've currently deployed an airbyte instance on gcp after using it locally for a while, and am setting up my connectors again, host.docker.internal isn't working anymore when im setting up a postgres instance, is there any way to restore all the pipelines/sources/destinations I had in my local deployment?

host.docker.internal is a Mac specific thing. You can use

localhost

instead, provided Cloud SQL Proxy is running on the same VM

You can export the configuration of your local instance to import them in your gcp instance... But some tweaks such as replacing by localhost might be necessary because of OS differences though...

sorry but could you guide me more or refer me to a doc if available regarding exporting my config to my instance

You can follow the same workflow as for upgrading but in your case, you are using different host instances for the export/import: https://docs.airbyte.io/operator-guides/upgrading-airbyte

the postgres db is deployed locally

locally on the same gcp instance where airbyte is? are you able to connect to it using a different sql client? (which os is that using?)

would i need to run the cloud sql proxy on my gcp instance to make it possible?

would i need to run the cloud sql proxy on my gcp instance to make it possible? (edited)

yes, it seems you should do something along those lines… https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-admin-ip