Google Cloud Shell

Description:

• https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference
• Each of the gcloud GROUP is used different for each of the service, from each of the group
  • Also have gsutil and bq
• At all points, use help gcloud help <group>
  • then use / to search
  • or man
• Use gcloud alpha interactive
• gcloud auth
  • gcloud auth login
  • gcloud auth application-default login to authenticate the shell
• gcloud config
  • gcloud config set project <projec_id>

Cloud shell:

• Has Terraform built in
• You can upload a file and download from the vm instance
• A temporary Compute Engine VM which is a part of Cloud VPC network
  • Command-line access to the instance via a browser
  • logged in by project’s default service account
• 5 GB of persistent disk storage ($HOME dir)
  • After 1 hour of inactivity, the Cloud Shell instance is recycled.
  • Only the /home directory persists.
  • Any changes made to the system configuration, including environment variables, are lost between sessions.
• Pre-installed Cloud SDK and other tools
  • gcloud: for working with Compute Engine and many Google Cloud services
  • gcloud storage: for working with Cloud Storage
  • kubectl: for working with Google Kubernetes Engine and Kubernetes
  • bq: for working with BigQuery
  • Language support for Java, Go, Python, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby
• Web preview functionality
• Built-in authorization for access to resources and instances

Modify the bash profile and create persistence

• Create persistence variable names in CLI?

Commonly used

• Quick start: gcloud cheat-sheet