GCP CLI Commands

command-line tool for Google Cloud Platform. It comes pre-installed on Cloud Shell.

Command	Description
`gcloud auth list`	list the active account name
`gcloud auth login [ACCOUNT]`	authorize gcloud to access the Cloud Platform with Google user credentials
`gcloud components update`	update all the installed Google Cloud SDK components.
`gcloud info --format="value(installation.sdk_root)"`	Find out where Google Cloud SDK is installed
`exit`	log out of the interactive shell

Command	Description
`gcloud config set account [ACCOUNT]`	set account
`gcloud config set project [PROJECT]`	set project
`gcloud config set compute/zone [ZONE-NAME]`	set your default compute zone
`gcloud config list project`	list the project ID

Command	Description
`gcloud compute zones list \| grep $MY_REGION`	list all the zones in a given region. Set Environment Variable to your region. Ex: `MY_REGION=us-central1`
`gcloud compute instances list`	List the virtual machine instances in your project.
`gcloud compute instances create second-vm --machine-type "e2-standard-2" --image-project "debian-cloud" --image-family "debian-9" --subnet "default" --zone "us-central1-c"`	Create a VM
`gcloud iam service-accounts create test-service-account2 --display-name "test-service-account2"`	create a new service account

Command	Description
`gcloud compute disks create --size=100GB --zone=us-central1-a demo-disk`	Create a compute engine persistent disk.

Command	Description
`gcloud container clusters create [CLUSTER-NAME]`	Create a Kubernetes Engine cluster (Kubernetes Engine will provision a few Virtual Machines)
`gcloud container clusters create [CLUSTER-NAME] --num-nodes 2 --machine-type n1-standard-2`	Create a kubernetes cluster with parameters (number of nodes, machine type).
`gcloud container clusters get-credentials [CLUSTER-NAME] --zone [ZONE_NAME]`	to interact with the cluster.After creating your cluster, you need to get authentication credentials
`gcloud container clusters delete [CLUSTER-NAME]`	delete a cluster

Command	Description
`gsutil mb gs://$MY_BUCKET_NAME_1`	create a bucket. Set Environment Variable to your bucket name. Ex: `MY_BUCKET_NAME_1=abcd`
`gsutil cp gs://[BUCKET-NAME]/path/to/file.extension file.extension`	Copy a file from one Cloud Storage bucket to your Cloud Shell. Ex: `gsutil cp gs://cloud-training/ak8s/cat.jpg cat.jpg`

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