Tool cheatsheet

Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) Cheatsheet

Setup and configuration

Check the CLI version — Print the gcloud version and installed components.
Initialize gcloud — Sign in and choose a default project and region interactively.
Sign in — Sign in with your Google account in the browser.
Set up application default credentials — Create credentials that client libraries and tools on your machine use.
Set the default project — Make a project the default for later commands.
Show current settings — Print the active account, project and region.
List projects — Show the projects you can access.
Create a named configuration — Switch between accounts and projects with named configurations.
Update gcloud — Update the CLI and its installed components.
Enable an API — Turn on a Google Cloud API for the project.

List VM instances — Show the VMs in the project.
Create a VM — Create a small Debian VM in a zone.
Connect to a VM with SSH — SSH into an instance. gcloud manages the keys.
Stop a VM — Stop an instance. You stop paying for compute but not for its disks.
Delete a VM — Delete a VM instance permanently.
Copy a file to a VM — Copy a local file to an instance.
Allow traffic to a port — Create a firewall rule that allows HTTPS from anywhere.

Deploy to Cloud Run from source — Build the current folder and deploy it as a Cloud Run service.
Deploy a container image to Cloud Run — Deploy an existing image.
Read Cloud Run logs — Print recent logs of a service.
Show a service's URL — Print the URL of a deployed service.
Deploy a function — Deploy an HTTP-triggered Python function from the current folder.
Build an image with Cloud Build — Build and push a container image to Artifact Registry.

List buckets or objects — List buckets, or objects in a bucket.
Copy files to or from a bucket — Copy a local file to a bucket. Add --recursive for folders.
Sync a folder with a bucket — Make a bucket match a local folder.
Read a secret — Print the latest version of a Secret Manager secret.
Store a secret — Create a secret from a file.
Read logs — Query the most recent error log entries.
List Cloud SQL instances — Show the Cloud SQL databases in the project.

Connect kubectl to GKE — Add a cluster's credentials to your kubeconfig.
List GKE clusters — Show the Kubernetes clusters in the project.
List service accounts — Show the service accounts in the project.
Grant a role — Give a user a role on the project.
Authenticate Docker to Artifact Registry — Let Docker push and pull images from a registry host.

Choose the output format — Print results as JSON. Other formats include yaml, table and value.
Capture a single value — Print a bare field, suited to scripts.
Filter resources — Filter results on the server side.
Skip confirmation prompts — Accept defaults without asking, as scripts need.

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