GeezerVison is showing cloud.google.com — Command Line Interface gcloud CLI | Google Cloud Jump togcloud CLI Google Cloud Command Line Interface (gcloud CLI)Create and manage Google Cloud resources and services directly on the command line or via scripts using the Google Cloud CLI. With broad platform compatibility and service coverage, perform common platform tasks faster and control your cloud resources at scale. Script or automate commands to manage and operate your cloud resources with accuracy and scale
Benefits Fast, scriptable orchestration
Accelerates your software development
Manage development workflows like pushing files to VMs, using data emulators for local Pub/Sub, databases, or BigQuery development, and deploying code to Cloud Run functions. Simplifies authentication
Authenticate to Google Cloud services using various simplified authentication approaches. Implement authentication flows for your client libraries code to run seamlessly locally, in staging, and production. Key features Orchestrate Google Cloud resources granularly and at scale Google Cloud CLI supports over 8,000 commands to provide complete management and control over nearly all Google Cloud services and products. The CLI also provides preview command sets for early access to pre-release Google Cloud products. Local emulators to accelerate software development To assist with your local software development, the gcloud CLI provides data emulators for Bigtable, Cloud Datastore, Firestore, Spanner, and Pub/Sub for local development, testing, and validation. These simulate the service back ends to help you write client-side code more efficiently. The gcloud CLI is also bundled with specialized sub-tools for working with BigQuery (the bq CLI), Cloud Storage (the gsutil CLI), and Kubernetes Clusters (the kubectl CLI) to provide precise and deep control over those respective products. With bq, run BigQuery queries and manipulate datasets, tables, and entities. With gsutil, manage Storage buckets and objects, and with kubectl, deploy and manage Kubernetes container clusters. Multi-platform installers, or run in web-based Cloud Shell Deploy applications to App Engine or Cloud Run functions For various serverless products, the gcloud CLI is the primary interface by which you upload code to run and generally support your development workflow. For example, for Cloud Function, you can use the CLI to describe or trigger a function, display its log entries, or deploy updates to it. Embedded help text and comprehensive web documentation Use the help flag to access inline documentation or view quickstarts and how-to guides on the web. The CLI is also backed by detailed reference documentation. For some services such as Cloud Compute, the Cloud Console provides equivalent gcloud CLI commands so you can use a UI interface to build up complex command and flag combinations. What's new What’s new Sign up for Google Cloud newsletters to receive product updates, event information, special offers, and more. Documentation Install Google Cloud CLIDownload and initialize the latest version of Google Cloud CLI. Install additional componentsDownload additional command-line components like bq, gsutil, kubectl, preview gcloud commands, or necessary dependencies. Overview of the Google Cloud CLIA comprehensive, high-level look at the gcloud CLI, including its release levels, command structure, and important concepts. Scripting gcloud commandsRun gcloud commands from a script by utilizing features like prompt disabling and output filtering and formatting. Hands-on labs: Using the gcloud CLILearn how to install and configure gcloud CLI, then use it to perform some basic operations like creating VMs, networks, and using gsutil to perform operations. Not seeing what you’re looking for?View all product documentation Use cases Use casesScript gcloud CLI commandsWhen you script with gcloud CLI, you can run gcloud commands using scripts or other automations—for example, by using Bash scripts, or when using Jenkins to drive automation of Google Cloud tasks. Additionally, the gcloud command-line tool comes with the ability to filter and format command output to easily structure and extract information as well as combine multiple commands to manage your Google Cloud resources non-interactively. Using local emulators to write software fastergcloud CLI ships with various data and service emulators to simulate dataset availability and backend behaviors directly in your local environment. This way, you can code, inspect behavior, and iterate on how your software displays data or handles various responses. View all technical guides Generate a solution What problem are you trying to solve? What you'll get: check_smallStep-by-step guide check_smallReference architecture check_smallAvailable pre-built solutions This service was built with Gemini. You must be 18 or older to use it. Do not enter sensitive, confidential, or personal info. All features All features| gsutil | The gsutil tool provides access to Cloud Storage, including a wide range of bucket and object management tasks, directly from the command line. | | bq | The bq tool enables running queries and manipulating datasets, tables, and entities in BigQuery through the command line. | | kubectl | The kubectl tool provides commands for greater control over Kubernetes clusters. With kubectl, you can deploy applications, inspect and manage cluster resources, and view logs, among a wide set of operations. | | Emulators | Google Cloud CLI comes with emulators for products like Bigtable, Datastore, Firestore, Spanner, and Pub/Sub, for local development, testing, and validation. | | Interactive mode | The gcloud interactive shell produces suggestions and auto-completion for commands, sub-commands, flags, and file and resource arguments. Inline help is displayed in the lower section. | | Cloud Console command construction | For Cloud Compute, Cloud Storage, and several other popular services, you can use the Cloud Console web-UI to manipulate drop-down menus and the point-and-click interface to build up the precise equivalent gcloud command. | | Refineable output verbosity | Command response verbosity, list page sizes, and other filters are available to refine output sizes and other usage characteristics. | | Export to Terraform (Preview) | Export the current state of your cloud resources and configurations into a Terraform compatible text file. You can use this to later reapply the configuration to create a duplicate environment, revert to a good known configuration, or for other DevOps style management purposes. |
Pricing PricingAs part of the Google Cloud SDK, the Google Cloud CLI is available at no charge for users with a Google Cloud account. Take the next stepStart building on Google Cloud with $300 in free credits and 20+ always free products. |
