Installing Cloud SDK

This page contains instructions for choosing and maintaining a Cloud SDK installation. Cloud SDK includes the gcloud, gsutil and bq command-line tools. For a list of Cloud SDK features, see All features.

To access the Google Cloud APIs using a supported programming language, you can download the Cloud Client Libraries.

Installation instructions

These instructions are for installing Cloud SDK. For information about installing additional components, such as gcloud tool commands at the alpha or beta release level, see Managing SDK components.

Note: If you are behind a proxy/firewall, see the proxy settings page for more information on installation.

Linux

1. Confirm that you have a supported version of Python. Cloud SDK requires Python 3 (3.5 to 3.8, 3.7 recommended) and Python 2 (2.7.9 or higher). For information on how to choose and configure your Python interpreter, see gcloud topic startup.
2. Download one of the following:
   Note: To determine your OS version, run getconf LONG_BIT at the command line.

   Platform	Package	Size	SHA256 Checksum
   Linux 64-bit (x86_64)	google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	93.2 MB	d5439713a07c3c31484b781b270bfe1ae60aa4d053fa78b6af6cdd319938305f
   Linux 64-bit (arm)	google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-linux-arm.tar.gz	90.6 MB	34775e6c9f9dfe054b7798318c7655d89c755fb985503f6f5487b399aff895a5
   Linux 32-bit (x86)	google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-linux-x86.tar.gz	90.6 MB	7b4a83e9485d98e5ec9dd5903fbf9f6aee189f7b5c0e52f992481b0c6a814c7b

   Alternatively, to download the Linux 64-bit archive file, at the command line, run:

   curl -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

   For the 64-bit arm archive file, run:

   curl -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-linux-arm.tar.gz

   For the 32-bit archive file, run:

   curl -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-linux-x86.tar.gz

3. Extract the contents of the file to any location on your file system (preferably your Home directory). To replace an existing installation, remove the existing google-cloud-sdk directory and extract the archive to the same location.
4. If you want to send anonymous usage statistics to help improve Cloud SDK, answer Y when prompted.
5. To add Cloud SDK command-line tools to your PATH and enable command completion, answer Y when prompted.
6. Optional. Use the install script to add Cloud SDK tools to your PATH. You can also opt-in to command-completion for your shell and usage statistics collection.

   Run the script (from the root of the folder you extracted to) using the following command:

   ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
   

   This can also be done non-interactively (for example, using a script) and by providing preferences as flags. These are described in:

   ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh --help
   

   Open a new terminal so that the changes take effect.
7. To initialize the SDK, run gcloud init:

./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud init

8. Optional. Install additional components using the component manager.

Debian/Ubuntu

Note: Depending on your setup, you can choose other installation methods:

• If you use Snap on your system, you can install Cloud SDK as a snap package
• If you're using an instance on Compute Engine, Cloud SDK is installed by default.

Package contents

Cloud SDK is available in package format for installation on Debian and Ubuntu systems. This package contains the gcloud, gcloud alpha, gcloud beta, gsutil, and bq commands only. It doesn't include kubectl or the App Engine extensions required to deploy an application using gcloud commands. If you want these components, you must install them separately.

Before you begin

Before you install Cloud SDK, make sure that your operating system meets the following requirements:

• An Ubuntu release that hasn't reached end-of-life or a Debian stable release that hasn't reached end-of-life
• apt-transport-https is installed:

  sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg

Installation

1. Add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source. If your distribution supports the signed-by option, run the following command:

   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

   If your distribution doesn't support the signed-by option, run the following command:

   echo "deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

   Note: Make sure you don't have duplicate entries for the cloud-sdk repo in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list.
2. Import the Google Cloud public key. If your distribution's apt-key command supports the --keyring argument, run the following command:

   curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -

   If your distribution's apt-key command doesn't support the --keyring argument, run the following command:

   curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

   If you can't get latest updates due to an expired key, obtain the latest apt-get.gpg key file.

3. Update and install the Cloud SDK:

   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

   For additional apt-get options, such as disabling prompts or dry runs, refer to the apt-get man pages.

   Docker Tip: If installing the Cloud SDK inside a Docker image, use a single RUN step instead:

   RUN echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list && curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg  add - && apt-get update -y && apt-get install google-cloud-sdk -y
         

4. Optionally, install any of the following additional components:
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python-extras
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-go
   • google-cloud-sdk-bigtable-emulator
   • google-cloud-sdk-cbt
   • google-cloud-sdk-cloud-build-local
   • google-cloud-sdk-datalab
   • google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator
   • google-cloud-sdk-firestore-emulator
   • google-cloud-sdk-pubsub-emulator
   • kubectl

   For example, the google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java component can be installed as follows:

   sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java

5. Run gcloud init to get started:

   gcloud init

Downgrading Cloud SDK versions

To revert to a specific version of Cloud SDK, where VERSION is of the form 123.0.0, run the following command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk=123.0.0-0

The most recent ten releases are always available in the repo.

Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS

Note: If you're using an instance on Compute Engine, Cloud SDK is installed by default.

Package contents

Cloud SDK is available in package format for installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Fedora 33, Fedora 34, CentOS 7, and Centos 8 systems. This package contains the gcloud, gcloud alpha, gcloud beta, gsutil, and bq commands only. It doesn't include kubectl or the App Engine extensions required to deploy an application using gcloud commands, which can be installed separately as described later in this section.

Installation

1. Update DNF with Cloud SDK repo information. The following sample command is for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8-compatible installation. For a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7-compatible installation, replace el8 with el7 in the value for baseUrl.

   sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo << EOM
   [google-cloud-sdk]
   name=Google Cloud SDK
   baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el8-x86_64
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   repo_gpgcheck=0
   gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg
          https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
   EOM
   

   Note: The second line of gpgkey must be indented as shown.
2. If you're installing on Fedora 35, install libcrypt-compat.x86_64.

   sudo dnf install libxcrypt-compat.x86_64

3. Install the Cloud SDK:

   sudo dnf install google-cloud-sdk

Note: If you haven't moved to dnf on your system, you can run these commands using yum instead.

You can also use dnf/yum options, such as disabling prompts or dry runs, with the provided commands.

4. Optionally, install any of these additional components:
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python-extras
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java
   • google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-go
   • google-cloud-sdk-bigtable-emulator
   • google-cloud-sdk-cbt
   • google-cloud-sdk-cloud-build-local
   • google-cloud-sdk-datalab
   • google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator
   • google-cloud-sdk-firestore-emulator
   • google-cloud-sdk-pubsub-emulator
   • kubectl

   For example, the google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java component can be installed as follows:

   sudo dnf install google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java

5. Run gcloud init to get started:

   gcloud init

Downgrading Cloud SDK versions

If you'd like to revert to a specific version of Cloud SDK, where VERSION is of the form 123.0.0, run: sudo dnf downgrade google-cloud-sdk-VERSION The most recent ten releases will always be available in the repo.

macOS

1. Confirm that you have a supported version of Python:
   • Supported versions are Python 3 (3.5 to 3.8, 3.7 recommended) and Python 2 (2.7.9 or higher).
   • Modern versions of macOS include the appropriate version of Python required for the Cloud SDK. To check your current Python version, run python -V.
   • For Cloud SDK release version 352.0.0 and above, the main install script offers to install CPython's Python 3.7 on Intel-based Macs.
   • For more information on how to choose and configure your Python interpreter, refer to gcloud topic startup.
2. Download one of the following:
   Note: To determine your machine hardware name, run uname -m from a command line.

Platform	Package	Size	SHA256 Checksum
macOS 64-bit (x86_64)	google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz	93.7 MB	05b8a839b5140399fdc05c94b3d6d3e3b9c5f227d3fb7541bfd4150365b70864
macOS 64-bit (arm64, Apple M1 silicon)	google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-darwin-arm.tar.gz	93.7 MB	d37e86b852475088d4ed9d880f61f174b2535c848c66236bc580e2ea0c98d641
macOS 32-bit (x86)	google-cloud-sdk-368.0.0-darwin-x86.tar.gz	97.5 MB	813ed5808cb94ce70271e12786977e4874ef89ccc82944470eca7ae7445d1791

1. Extract the archive to any location on your file system (preferably your Home directory). On macOS, this can be achieved by opening the downloaded .tar.gz archive file in the preferred location.

   To replace an existing installation, remove the existing google-cloud-sdk directory and then extract the archive to the same location.

2. Optional. Use the install script to add Cloud SDK tools to your PATH.

   You can also opt-in to command-completion for your shell and usage statistics collection, and optionally install Python 3.7.

   Run the script (from the root of the folder you extracted in the last step) using this command:

   ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
   

   This can also be done non-interactively (for example, using a script) by providing preferences as flags. To describe the available flags, run:

   ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh --help
   

   To run the install script with screen reader mode on:

   ./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh --screen-reader=true
   

   Open a new terminal so that the changes take effect.
3. Run gcloud init to initialize the SDK:

./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud init

4. Optional. Install additional components using the component manager.

Windows

1. Download the Cloud SDK installer.

   Alternatively, open a PowerShell terminal and run the following PowerShell commands:

   (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/GoogleCloudSDKInstaller.exe", "$env:Temp\GoogleCloudSDKInstaller.exe")
   
   & $env:Temp\GoogleCloudSDKInstaller.exe
       

2. Launch the installer and follow the prompts. The installer is signed by Google LLC.

   If you're using a screen reader, check the Turn on screen reader mode checkbox. This option configures gcloud to use status trackers instead of unicode spinners, display progress as a percentage, and flatten tables. For more information, see the Accessibility features guide.

3. Cloud SDK requires Python; supported versions are Python 3 (preferred, 3.5 to 3.8) and Python 2 (2.7.9 or higher). Cloud SDK comes bundled with Python 3 by default. To use Cloud SDK, your operating system must be able to run a supported version of Python.

   The installer installs all necessary dependencies, including the needed Python version. While Cloud SDK installs and manages Python 3 by default, you can use an existing Python installation if necessary by unchecking the option to Install Bundled Python. See gcloud topic startup to learn how to use an existing Python installation.

4. After installation is complete, the installer gives you the option to create Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts, start Cloud SDK shell, and configure the Cloud SDK. Make sure that you leave the options to start the shell and configure your installation selected. The installer starts a terminal window and runs the gcloud init command.

5. The default installation doesn't include the App Engine extensions required to deploy an application using gcloud commands. These components can be installed using the Cloud SDK component manager.

Troubleshooting tips:

• If your installation is unsuccessful due to the find command not being recognized, ensure your PATH environment variable is set to include the folder containing find. Usually, this is C:\WINDOWS\system32;.
• If you uninstalled Cloud SDK, you must reboot your system before installing Cloud SDK again.
• If unzipping fails, run the installer as an administrator.

Other installation options

Depending on your development needs, instead of the recommended installation, you can use an alternative method of installing Cloud SDK:

• Using Cloud SDK with scripts or Continuous Integration/Deployment? Download a versioned archive for a non-interactive installation of a specific version of Cloud SDK.
• Need to run Cloud SDK as a Docker image? Use the Cloud SDK Docker image for the latest release (or a specific version) of Cloud SDK.
• Running Ubuntu and prefer automatic updates? Use a snap package to install the Cloud SDK.
• For Windows and macOS interactive installations, and all other use cases, run the interactive installer to install the latest release of Cloud SDK.

Managing an installation

After you have installed Cloud SDK, you can use commands in the gcloud components command group to manage your installation. This includes viewing installed components, adding and removing components, and upgrading to a new version or downgrading to a specific version of Cloud SDK.

Note: If you installed Cloud SDK using apt-get or yum, use apt-get or yum to update or remove components. This functionality isn't available using gcloud components for apt-get and yum installations.

Older versions of Cloud SDK

If you need an older version of Cloud SDK, you can download previous releases.

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