Google Cloud Platform SDK

GCP offers several standalone command-line interfaces (CLIs) to manage and interact with your GCP resources, gcloud being the main one. All secondary command-line tools are installed via gcloud. At time of writing this, the command-line tools are:

  • gcloud: The main CLI to manage your GCP resources and projects: authentication, local configuration, developer workflow, and interactions with the GCP APIs. The following services can be handled via the gcloud CLI: app engine, auth, compute engine, container, DataFlow, Dataproc, machine learning, SQL databases as well as deployment of Cloud resources, Iam setup, and logging with Stackdriver and web resources such as DNS, Domains, or Firebase.

Gcloud also takes care of ...

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