Google Cloud Platform CLI (gcloud) - Part 1

Table of Contents

1. Installation & Setup
2. Basic Configuration
3. Project Management
4. IAM & Security
5. Compute Services
6. Storage Services
7. Database Services
8. Networking
9. Kubernetes (GKE)
10. BigQuery
11. Cloud Run
12. Monitoring & Logging
13. Best Practices

Let me start with the first few sections, and I’ll continue with the rest.

Installation & Setup

Installation

# Debian/Ubuntu
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk
 
# macOS
brew install --cask google-cloud-sdk
 
# Windows
# Download installer from https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install

Initial Setup

# Initialize gcloud
gcloud init
 
# Auth login
gcloud auth login
 
# Application default credentials
gcloud auth application-default login
 
# Service account auth
gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=key.json
 
# List active account
gcloud auth list

Basic Configuration

Configuration Management

# List all properties
gcloud config list
 
# Set default project
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
 
# Set default region
gcloud config set compute/region us-central1
 
# Set default zone
gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-a
 
# Create configuration
gcloud config configurations create CONFIGURATION_NAME
 
# Switch configurations
gcloud config configurations activate CONFIGURATION_NAME

Project Management

# List projects
gcloud projects list
 
# Create new project
gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID --name="Project Name"
 
# Set project
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
 
# Get project info
gcloud projects describe PROJECT_ID
 
# Delete project
gcloud projects delete PROJECT_ID

Environment Setup

# Install components
gcloud components install COMPONENT_ID
 
# Update components
gcloud components update
 
# List available components
gcloud components list

IAM & Security

Service Accounts

# Create service account
gcloud iam service-accounts create SA_NAME \
    --description="Description" \
    --display-name="Display Name"
 
# List service accounts
gcloud iam service-accounts list
 
# Create key
gcloud iam service-accounts keys create key.json \
    --iam-account=SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com
 
# Add role to service account
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID \
    --member="serviceAccount:SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role="roles/role.name"

IAM Roles

# List roles
gcloud iam roles list
 
# Create custom role
gcloud iam roles create ROLE_ID \
    --project=PROJECT_ID \
    --title="Role Title" \
    --description="Description" \
    --permissions=permission1,permission2
 
# Update role
gcloud iam roles update ROLE_ID \
    --project=PROJECT_ID \
    --add-permissions=permission3
 
# Get IAM policy
gcloud projects get-iam-policy PROJECT_ID
 
# Set IAM policy
gcloud projects set-iam-policy PROJECT_ID policy.yaml

Security

# Enable services
gcloud services enable SERVICE_NAME
 
# List enabled services
gcloud services list
 
# Disable services
gcloud services disable SERVICE_NAME
 
# Create SSL certificate
gcloud compute ssl-certificates create CERT_NAME \
    --domains=domain.com

Compute Services

Compute Engine

# Create instance
gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE_NAME \
    --machine-type=e2-medium \
    --image-family=debian-10 \
    --image-project=debian-cloud \
    --boot-disk-size=10GB
 
# List instances
gcloud compute instances list
 
# SSH into instance
gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE_NAME
 
# Start instance
gcloud compute instances start INSTANCE_NAME
 
# Stop instance
gcloud compute instances stop INSTANCE_NAME
 
# Delete instance
gcloud compute instances delete INSTANCE_NAME
 
# Create instance template
gcloud compute instance-templates create TEMPLATE_NAME \
    --machine-type=e2-medium \
    --image-family=debian-10 \
    --image-project=debian-cloud
 
# Create instance group
gcloud compute instance-groups managed create GROUP_NAME \
    --template=TEMPLATE_NAME \
    --size=2 \
    --zone=ZONE

Disk Management

# Create disk
gcloud compute disks create DISK_NAME \
    --size=100GB \
    --type=pd-ssd
 
# Attach disk
gcloud compute instances attach-disk INSTANCE_NAME \
    --disk=DISK_NAME
 
# List disks
gcloud compute disks list
 
# Snapshot disk
gcloud compute disks snapshot DISK_NAME \
    --snapshot-names=SNAPSHOT_NAME
 
# Delete disk
gcloud compute disks delete DISK_NAME

[Continue to Part 2…]

Would you like me to continue with the next sections? I’ll cover Storage Services, Database Services, Networking, Kubernetes (GKE), BigQuery, Cloud Run, and more in detail.