gcloud cheat-sheet

NAME

gcloud cheat-sheet - display gcloud cheat sheet

SYNOPSIS

gcloud cheat-sheet [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

A roster of go-to gcloud commands for the gcloud tool, Google Cloud's primary command-line tool.

Getting started

Get going with the gcloud command-line tool

• gcloud init: Initialize, authorize, and configure the gcloud tool.
• gcloud version: Display version and installed components.
• gcloud components install: Install specific components.
• gcloud components update: Update your Google Cloud CLI to the latest version.
• gcloud config set project: Set a default Google Cloud project to work on.
• gcloud info: Display current gcloud tool environment details.

Help

Google Cloud CLI is happy to help

• gcloud help: Search the gcloud tool reference documents for specific terms.
• gcloud feedback: Provide feedback for the Google Cloud CLI team.
• gcloud topic: Supplementary help material for non-command topics like accessibility, filtering, and formatting.

Personalization

Make the Google Cloud CLI your own; personalize your configuration with properties

• gcloud config set: Define a property (like compute/zone) for the current configuration.
• gcloud config get: Fetch value of a Google Cloud CLI property.
• gcloud config list: Display all the properties for the current configuration.
• gcloud config configurations create: Create a new named configuration.
• gcloud config configurations list: Display a list of all available configurations.
• gcloud config configurations activate: Switch to an existing named configuration.

Credentials

Grant and revoke authorization to Google Cloud CLI

• gcloud auth login: Authorize Google Cloud access for the gcloud tool with Google user credentials and set current account as active.
• gcloud auth activate-service-account: Like gcloud auth login but with service account credentials.
• gcloud auth list: List all credentialed accounts.
• gcloud auth print-access-token: Display the current account's access token.
• gcloud auth revoke: Remove access credentials for an account.

Projects

Manage project access policies

• gcloud projects describe: Display metadata for a project (including its ID).
• gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding: Add an IAM policy binding to a specified project.

Identity & Access Management

Configuring Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) preferences and service accounts

• gcloud iam list-grantable-roles: List IAM grantable roles for a resource.
• gcloud iam roles create: Create a custom role for a project or org.
• gcloud iam service-accounts create: Create a service account for a project.
• gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding: Add an IAM policy binding to a service account.
• gcloud iam service-accounts set-iam-policy: Replace existing IAM policy binding.
• gcloud iam service-accounts keys list: List a service account's keys.

Docker & Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Manage containerized applications on Kubernetes

• gcloud auth configure-docker: Register the gcloud tool as a Docker credential helper.
• gcloud container clusters create: Create a cluster to run GKE containers.
• gcloud container clusters list: List clusters for running GKE containers.
• gcloud container clusters get-credentials: Update kubeconfig to get kubectl to use a GKE cluster.
• gcloud container images list-tags: List tag and digest metadata for a container image.

Virtual Machines & Compute Engine

Create, run, and manage VMs on Google infrastructure

• gcloud compute zones list: List Compute Engine zones.
• gcloud compute instances describe: Display a VM instance's details.
• gcloud compute instances list: List all VM instances in a project.
• gcloud compute disks snapshot: Create snapshot of persistent disks.
• gcloud compute snapshots describe: Display a snapshot's details.
• gcloud compute snapshots delete: Delete a snapshot.
• gcloud compute ssh: Connect to a VM instance by using SSH.

Serverless & App Engine

Build highly scalable applications on a fully managed serverless platform

• gcloud app deploy: Deploy your app's code and configuration to the App Engine server.
• gcloud app versions list: List all versions of all services deployed to the App Engine server.
• gcloud app browse: Open the current app in a web browser.
• gcloud app create: Create an App Engine app within your current project.
• gcloud app logs read: Display the latest App Engine app logs.

Miscellaneous

Commands that might come in handy

• gcloud kms decrypt: Decrypt ciphertext (to a plaintext file) using a Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) key.
• gcloud logging logs list: List your project's logs.
• gcloud sql backups describe: Display info about a Cloud SQL instance backup.
• gcloud sql export sql: Export data from a Cloud SQL instance to a SQL file.

EXAMPLES

To view this cheat sheet, run:

gcloud cheat-sheet

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.