This page describes how to get started with the
Cloud SDK
so you can use it to manage Cloud SQL instances. The Cloud SDK
provides the gcloud command-line tool to interact with
Cloud SQL and other Google Cloud Platform services. The gcloud tool
uses the API to access Cloud SQL, so you must enable the API before you
can use the gcloud tool to access Cloud SQL.
For gcloud examples, see the
How-to page for the task.
Getting started with the gcloud command-line tool
To start with the gcloud tool, review the
Cloud SDK Documentation.
You can get help for the tool, resources, and
commands by using the --help flag:
gcloud sql --help gcloud sql instances --help gcloud sql instances create --help
The help displayed with the --help flag is also available in
the Cloud SDK reference for
gcloud sql.
Finally, configure a project as your default project with
two commands. The first command below lists the
configuration for the gcloud tool, including any default project
already set. The second command sets the default project.
gcloud config list gcloud config set project [PROJECT_ID]
