Using the command line

Let's look at using the gcloud command to create a project. gcloud is part of the Google Cloud SDK. You will need to download and install it on your machine in order to use the gcloud commands from your terminal. Alternatively, you may use the cloud shell console from within the browser. Go to https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads to download the relevant package as it applies to your machine and install it:

  1. Once you have installed the SDK on your machine, we need to initialize it. This is done by running the gcloud init command to perform the initial setup tasks. If you ever need to change a setting or create a new configuration, simply re-run gcloud init.
  2. Open the terminal on your machine and type gcloud init. This ...

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