Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform CLI for compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes Engine, and cloud resource management.

142 commands

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Getting Started

Quick setup and installation

3commands

Auth

Auth & configuration

18commands

Compute

Compute Engine

18commands

Storage

Cloud Storage (gsutil)

8commands

GKE

Kubernetes Engine

20commands

Cloud Run

Serverless containers

12commands

Functions

Cloud Functions

11commands

IAM

Identity & access

6commands

Projects

Project management

7commands

Artifacts

Artifact Registry

5commands

Cloud SQL

Managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

16commands

Networking

VPC, subnets, DNS & load balancing

10commands

Logging

Cloud Logging & log management

8commands

Install Google Cloud SDK (macOS)

$ brew install google-cloud-sdk

Install the Google Cloud SDK using Homebrew on macOS

Check gcloud version

$ gcloud version

Display the installed Google Cloud SDK version

Login to Google Cloud

$ gcloud auth login

Authenticate with Google Cloud using interactive browser login

Copy Files

$ gsutil cp <local-file> gs://<bucket>/<path>

Copy files to/from Cloud Storage

Copy Directory

$ gsutil -m cp -r <local-dir> gs://<bucket>/<path>

Copy directory recursively with parallelism

Get Bucket IAM

$ gsutil iam get gs://<bucket-name>

Get IAM policy for bucket

List Buckets/Objects

$ gsutil ls gs://<bucket-name>

List buckets or objects in a bucket

Create Bucket

$ gsutil mb -l <region> gs://<bucket-name>

Create a new Cloud Storage bucket

Delete Bucket

$ gsutil rb gs://<bucket-name>

Delete an empty bucket

Delete Objects

$ gsutil rm gs://<bucket>/<object>

Delete objects from bucket

Sync Files

$ gsutil rsync -r <local-dir> gs://<bucket>/<path>

Synchronize local directory with bucket

Delete Cloud Run Service

$ gcloud run services delete <service> --region=<region>

Delete a Cloud Run service

Deploy to Cloud Run

$ gcloud run deploy <service> --image=<image> --region=<region> --allow-unauthenticated

Deploy a container to Cloud Run

Deploy from Source

$ gcloud run deploy <service> --source=. --region=<region>

Build and deploy from source code

Describe Service

$ gcloud run services describe <service> --region=<region>

Get details of a Cloud Run service

Create Cloud Run Job

$ gcloud run jobs create <job> --image=<image> --region=us-central1

Create a Cloud Run job for batch processing

Describe Cloud Run Job

$ gcloud run jobs describe <job> --region=us-central1

Get configuration details of a Cloud Run job

Execute Cloud Run Job

$ gcloud run jobs execute <job> --region=us-central1

Manually trigger a Cloud Run job execution

List Cloud Run Services

$ gcloud run services list

List all Cloud Run services

View Service Logs

$ gcloud run services logs read <service> --region=<region>

Read logs from Cloud Run service

Set IAM Policy

$ gcloud run services set-iam-policy <service> policy.yaml --region=us-central1

Set IAM policy for Cloud Run service from file

Manage Traffic

$ gcloud run services update-traffic <service> --to-revisions=<rev>=100 --region=<region>

Split traffic between revisions

Update Traffic Split

$ gcloud run services update-traffic <service> --to-revisions=<rev>=100 --region=us-central1

Configure traffic distribution between revisions

Call Function

$ gcloud functions call <name> --region=<region> --data='{"key":"value"}'

Invoke a Cloud Function

Test Function with Data

$ gcloud functions call <name> --data='{"key":"value"}' --region=us-central1

Invoke function with JSON payload for testing

Delete Function

$ gcloud functions delete <name> --region=<region>

Delete a Cloud Function

Delete Function Forcefully

$ gcloud functions delete <name> --region=us-central1

Remove a Cloud Function from specified region

Deploy Function

$ gcloud functions deploy <name> --runtime=nodejs20 --trigger-http --allow-unauthenticated --gen2 --region=<region>

Deploy a Cloud Function (2nd gen)

Deploy Python Gen2 Function

$ gcloud functions deploy <name> --gen2 --runtime=python311 --trigger-http

Deploy Cloud Function Gen2 with Python 3.11 runtime

Describe Function

$ gcloud functions describe <name> --region=<region>

Get details of a Cloud Function

Get Function Details

$ gcloud functions describe <name> --region=us-central1

Retrieve complete function configuration and status

List Functions

$ gcloud functions list

List all Cloud Functions

View Function Logs

$ gcloud functions logs read <name> --region=<region>

Read logs from a Cloud Function

Read Function Logs with Limit

$ gcloud functions logs read <name> --region=us-central1 --limit=50

Read recent function logs with result limit

Add IAM Binding

$ gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding <project> --member=<member> --role=<role>

Grant a role to a member on project

Get IAM Policy

$ gcloud projects get-iam-policy <project>

Show IAM policy for project

List Roles

$ gcloud iam roles list --filter="title~editor"

List available IAM roles

Create Service Account

$ gcloud iam service-accounts create <name> --display-name="<display-name>"

Create a new service account

Create Service Account Key

$ gcloud iam service-accounts keys create key.json --iam-account=<sa-email>

Generate a key file for service account

List Service Accounts

$ gcloud iam service-accounts list

List all service accounts in project

Link Billing Account

$ gcloud billing projects link <project-id> --billing-account=<billing-account-id>

Link a billing account to project

Create Project

$ gcloud projects create <project-id> --name="<Project Name>"

Create a new Google Cloud project

Delete Project

$ gcloud projects delete <project-id>

Schedule project for deletion

Describe Project

$ gcloud projects describe <project-id>

Get details of a project

List Projects

$ gcloud projects list

List all accessible projects

Enable API

$ gcloud services enable <api>.googleapis.com

Enable a Google Cloud API

List Enabled APIs

$ gcloud services list --enabled

Show enabled APIs in project

Create Artifact Repository

$ gcloud artifacts repositories create <repo> --repository-format=docker --location=us

Create a new Artifact Registry repository for Docker images

Delete Artifact Repository

$ gcloud artifacts repositories delete <repo> --location=us

Delete an Artifact Registry repository

List Docker Images

$ gcloud artifacts docker images list <location>-docker.pkg.dev/<project>/<repo>

List all Docker images in an Artifact Registry repository

List Artifact Repositories

$ gcloud artifacts repositories list --location=us

List all Artifact Registry repositories in location

List Image Tags

$ gcloud artifacts docker tags list <location>-docker.pkg.dev/<project>/<repo>/<image>

List all tags for a specific Docker image

Add DNS Record

$ gcloud dns record-sets create <domain>. --zone=<zone> --type=A --ttl=300 --rrdatas=<ip>

Create a DNS record in a managed zone

Create DNS Zone

$ gcloud dns managed-zones create <name> --dns-name=<domain>. --description=<desc>

Create a Cloud DNS managed zone

List Static IPs

$ gcloud compute addresses list

List all reserved static IP addresses

Reserve Static IP

$ gcloud compute addresses create <name> --region=<region>

Reserve an external static IP address

Create HTTP Load Balancer

$ gcloud compute url-maps create <name> --default-service=<backend-service>

Create a URL map for HTTP(S) load balancing

Create Cloud NAT

$ gcloud compute routers nats create <name> --router=<router> --region=<region> --auto-allocate-nat-external-ips --nat-all-subnet-ip-ranges

Create Cloud NAT for outbound internet access from private VMs

Create Subnet

$ gcloud compute networks subnets create <name> --network=<vpc> --region=<region> --range=10.0.0.0/24

Create a subnet in a VPC network

List Subnets

$ gcloud compute networks subnets list

List all subnets across all VPC networks

Create VPC Network

$ gcloud compute networks create <name> --subnet-mode=custom

Create a custom VPC network

List VPC Networks

$ gcloud compute networks list

List all VPC networks in the project

Create Log Sink

$ gcloud logging sinks create <name> storage.googleapis.com/<bucket> --log-filter="severity>=ERROR"

Create a log sink to export logs to Cloud Storage, BigQuery, or Pub/Sub

List Available Logs

$ gcloud logging logs list

List all log names in the project

List Log Sinks

$ gcloud logging sinks list

List all log sinks (exports) in the project

Create Log Metric

$ gcloud logging metrics create <name> --description="<desc>" --log-filter="severity>=ERROR"

Create a log-based metric for monitoring and alerting

Read Logs

$ gcloud logging read "resource.type=gce_instance" --limit=50 --format=json

Read log entries with a filter expression

Read Recent Logs

$ gcloud logging read "timestamp>=\"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z\"" --limit=20

Read log entries from a specific time period

Tail Logs Live

$ gcloud alpha logging tail "resource.type=cloud_run_revision"

Stream live log entries in real-time (like tail -f)

Write Log Entry

$ gcloud logging write <log-name> "Log message" --severity=INFO

Write a custom log entry to Cloud Logging

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Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform CLI for compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes Engine, and cloud resource management.

142 commands

Browse by Topic

Getting Started

Quick setup and installation

3commands

Auth

Auth & configuration

18commands

Compute

Compute Engine

18commands

Storage

Cloud Storage (gsutil)

8commands

GKE

Kubernetes Engine

20commands

Cloud Run

Serverless containers

12commands

Functions

Cloud Functions

11commands

IAM

Identity & access

6commands

Projects

Project management

7commands

Artifacts

Artifact Registry

5commands

Cloud SQL

Managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

16commands

Networking

VPC, subnets, DNS & load balancing

10commands

Logging

Cloud Logging & log management

8commands

Install Google Cloud SDK (macOS)

$ brew install google-cloud-sdk

Install the Google Cloud SDK using Homebrew on macOS

Check gcloud version

$ gcloud version

Display the installed Google Cloud SDK version

Login to Google Cloud

$ gcloud auth login

Authenticate with Google Cloud using interactive browser login

Copy Files

$ gsutil cp <local-file> gs://<bucket>/<path>

Copy files to/from Cloud Storage

Copy Directory

$ gsutil -m cp -r <local-dir> gs://<bucket>/<path>

Copy directory recursively with parallelism

Get Bucket IAM

$ gsutil iam get gs://<bucket-name>

Get IAM policy for bucket

List Buckets/Objects

$ gsutil ls gs://<bucket-name>

List buckets or objects in a bucket

Create Bucket

$ gsutil mb -l <region> gs://<bucket-name>

Create a new Cloud Storage bucket

Delete Bucket

$ gsutil rb gs://<bucket-name>

Delete an empty bucket

Delete Objects

$ gsutil rm gs://<bucket>/<object>

Delete objects from bucket

Sync Files

$ gsutil rsync -r <local-dir> gs://<bucket>/<path>

Synchronize local directory with bucket

Delete Cloud Run Service

$ gcloud run services delete <service> --region=<region>

Delete a Cloud Run service

Deploy to Cloud Run

$ gcloud run deploy <service> --image=<image> --region=<region> --allow-unauthenticated

Deploy a container to Cloud Run

Deploy from Source

$ gcloud run deploy <service> --source=. --region=<region>

Build and deploy from source code

Describe Service

$ gcloud run services describe <service> --region=<region>

Get details of a Cloud Run service

Create Cloud Run Job

$ gcloud run jobs create <job> --image=<image> --region=us-central1

Create a Cloud Run job for batch processing

Describe Cloud Run Job

$ gcloud run jobs describe <job> --region=us-central1

Get configuration details of a Cloud Run job

Execute Cloud Run Job

$ gcloud run jobs execute <job> --region=us-central1

Manually trigger a Cloud Run job execution

List Cloud Run Services

$ gcloud run services list

List all Cloud Run services

View Service Logs

$ gcloud run services logs read <service> --region=<region>

Read logs from Cloud Run service

Set IAM Policy

$ gcloud run services set-iam-policy <service> policy.yaml --region=us-central1

Set IAM policy for Cloud Run service from file

Manage Traffic

$ gcloud run services update-traffic <service> --to-revisions=<rev>=100 --region=<region>

Split traffic between revisions

Update Traffic Split

$ gcloud run services update-traffic <service> --to-revisions=<rev>=100 --region=us-central1

Configure traffic distribution between revisions

Call Function

$ gcloud functions call <name> --region=<region> --data='{"key":"value"}'

Invoke a Cloud Function

Test Function with Data

$ gcloud functions call <name> --data='{"key":"value"}' --region=us-central1

Invoke function with JSON payload for testing

Delete Function

$ gcloud functions delete <name> --region=<region>

Delete a Cloud Function

Delete Function Forcefully

$ gcloud functions delete <name> --region=us-central1

Remove a Cloud Function from specified region

Deploy Function

$ gcloud functions deploy <name> --runtime=nodejs20 --trigger-http --allow-unauthenticated --gen2 --region=<region>

Deploy a Cloud Function (2nd gen)

Deploy Python Gen2 Function

$ gcloud functions deploy <name> --gen2 --runtime=python311 --trigger-http

Deploy Cloud Function Gen2 with Python 3.11 runtime

Describe Function

$ gcloud functions describe <name> --region=<region>

Get details of a Cloud Function

Get Function Details

$ gcloud functions describe <name> --region=us-central1

Retrieve complete function configuration and status

List Functions

$ gcloud functions list

List all Cloud Functions

View Function Logs

$ gcloud functions logs read <name> --region=<region>

Read logs from a Cloud Function

Read Function Logs with Limit

$ gcloud functions logs read <name> --region=us-central1 --limit=50

Read recent function logs with result limit

Add IAM Binding

$ gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding <project> --member=<member> --role=<role>

Grant a role to a member on project

Get IAM Policy

$ gcloud projects get-iam-policy <project>

Show IAM policy for project

List Roles

$ gcloud iam roles list --filter="title~editor"

List available IAM roles

Create Service Account

$ gcloud iam service-accounts create <name> --display-name="<display-name>"

Create a new service account

Create Service Account Key

$ gcloud iam service-accounts keys create key.json --iam-account=<sa-email>

Generate a key file for service account

List Service Accounts

$ gcloud iam service-accounts list

List all service accounts in project

Link Billing Account

$ gcloud billing projects link <project-id> --billing-account=<billing-account-id>

Link a billing account to project

Create Project

$ gcloud projects create <project-id> --name="<Project Name>"

Create a new Google Cloud project

Delete Project

$ gcloud projects delete <project-id>

Schedule project for deletion

Describe Project

$ gcloud projects describe <project-id>

Get details of a project

List Projects

$ gcloud projects list

List all accessible projects

Enable API

$ gcloud services enable <api>.googleapis.com

Enable a Google Cloud API

List Enabled APIs

$ gcloud services list --enabled

Show enabled APIs in project

Create Artifact Repository

$ gcloud artifacts repositories create <repo> --repository-format=docker --location=us

Create a new Artifact Registry repository for Docker images

Delete Artifact Repository

$ gcloud artifacts repositories delete <repo> --location=us

Delete an Artifact Registry repository

List Docker Images

$ gcloud artifacts docker images list <location>-docker.pkg.dev/<project>/<repo>

List all Docker images in an Artifact Registry repository

List Artifact Repositories

$ gcloud artifacts repositories list --location=us

List all Artifact Registry repositories in location

List Image Tags

$ gcloud artifacts docker tags list <location>-docker.pkg.dev/<project>/<repo>/<image>

List all tags for a specific Docker image

Add DNS Record

$ gcloud dns record-sets create <domain>. --zone=<zone> --type=A --ttl=300 --rrdatas=<ip>

Create a DNS record in a managed zone

Create DNS Zone

$ gcloud dns managed-zones create <name> --dns-name=<domain>. --description=<desc>

Create a Cloud DNS managed zone

List Static IPs

$ gcloud compute addresses list

List all reserved static IP addresses

Reserve Static IP

$ gcloud compute addresses create <name> --region=<region>

Reserve an external static IP address

Create HTTP Load Balancer

$ gcloud compute url-maps create <name> --default-service=<backend-service>

Create a URL map for HTTP(S) load balancing

Create Cloud NAT

$ gcloud compute routers nats create <name> --router=<router> --region=<region> --auto-allocate-nat-external-ips --nat-all-subnet-ip-ranges

Create Cloud NAT for outbound internet access from private VMs

Create Subnet

$ gcloud compute networks subnets create <name> --network=<vpc> --region=<region> --range=10.0.0.0/24

Create a subnet in a VPC network

List Subnets

$ gcloud compute networks subnets list

List all subnets across all VPC networks

Create VPC Network

$ gcloud compute networks create <name> --subnet-mode=custom

Create a custom VPC network

List VPC Networks

$ gcloud compute networks list

List all VPC networks in the project

Create Log Sink

$ gcloud logging sinks create <name> storage.googleapis.com/<bucket> --log-filter="severity>=ERROR"

Create a log sink to export logs to Cloud Storage, BigQuery, or Pub/Sub

List Available Logs

$ gcloud logging logs list

List all log names in the project

List Log Sinks

$ gcloud logging sinks list

List all log sinks (exports) in the project

Create Log Metric

$ gcloud logging metrics create <name> --description="<desc>" --log-filter="severity>=ERROR"

Create a log-based metric for monitoring and alerting

Read Logs

$ gcloud logging read "resource.type=gce_instance" --limit=50 --format=json

Read log entries with a filter expression

Read Recent Logs

$ gcloud logging read "timestamp>=\"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z\"" --limit=20

Read log entries from a specific time period

Tail Logs Live

$ gcloud alpha logging tail "resource.type=cloud_run_revision"

Stream live log entries in real-time (like tail -f)

Write Log Entry

$ gcloud logging write <log-name> "Log message" --severity=INFO

Write a custom log entry to Cloud Logging

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