gcloud CLI

The gcloud CLI is the official command-line tool for interacting with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It lets you create, manage, and monitor cloud resources directly from your terminal.

1. Install gcloud CLI

You can install the Google Cloud SDK (which includes gcloud) from:

• https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install

2. Initialize gcloud

gcloud init

This logs you in and lets you select your GCP project and default settings.

3. Common gcloud Commands

Authenticate

gcloud auth login

Set Active Project

gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

Compute Engine

gcloud compute instances list
gcloud compute instances create my-vm --zone=us-central1-a
gcloud compute ssh my-vm

Cloud Storage

gcloud storage buckets list
gcloud storage cp localfile.txt gs://my-bucket/

Cloud Run

gcloud run deploy my-service --source=. --region=us-central1

Kubernetes (GKE)

gcloud container clusters get-credentials my-cluster
kubectl get pods

App Engine

gcloud app deploy

4. Useful Config Commands

gcloud config list
gcloud config set compute/region asia-south1
gcloud config set compute/zone asia-south1-a

5. Help & Documentation

gcloud --help
gcloud compute --help
gcloud compute instances --help

You can use --help with any command to see all its options.