GCloud Skill

Use the

gcloud

CLI to manage Google Cloud Platform resources and services.

Authentication

Check current auth:

bash

gcloud auth list

bash

gcloud auth login

bash

gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=key.json

Application default credentials:

bash

gcloud auth application-default login

Project & Configuration

List projects:

bash

gcloud projects list

Set default project:

bash

gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

Show current config:

bash

gcloud config list

Create named configuration:

bash

gcloud config configurations create my-config
gcloud config configurations activate my-config

Set default region/zone:

bash

gcloud config set compute/region us-central1
gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-a

Compute Engine (VMs)

List instances:

bash

gcloud compute instances list

Create instance:

bash

gcloud compute instances create my-vm \
  --zone=us-central1-a \
  --machine-type=e2-medium \
  --image-family=debian-12 \
  --image-project=debian-cloud

SSH to instance:

bash

gcloud compute ssh my-vm --zone=us-central1-a

Stop/start instance:

bash

gcloud compute instances stop my-vm --zone=us-central1-a
gcloud compute instances start my-vm --zone=us-central1-a

Delete instance:

bash

gcloud compute instances delete my-vm --zone=us-central1-a

Cloud Run

List services:

bash

gcloud run services list

Deploy from source:

bash

gcloud run deploy my-service --source . --region=us-central1

Deploy container:

bash

gcloud run deploy my-service \
  --image=gcr.io/PROJECT/IMAGE \
  --region=us-central1 \
  --allow-unauthenticated

View logs:

bash

gcloud run services logs read my-service --region=us-central1

Update traffic split:

bash

gcloud run services update-traffic my-service \
  --to-revisions=LATEST=100 \
  --region=us-central1

Cloud Functions

List functions:

bash

gcloud functions list

Deploy function (2nd gen):

bash

gcloud functions deploy my-function \
  --gen2 \
  --runtime=nodejs20 \
  --region=us-central1 \
  --trigger-http \
  --entry-point=handler \
  --source=.

View logs:

bash

gcloud functions logs read my-function --region=us-central1

Delete function:

bash

gcloud functions delete my-function --region=us-central1

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

List clusters:

bash

gcloud container clusters list

Get credentials for kubectl:

bash

gcloud container clusters get-credentials my-cluster \
  --zone=us-central1-a

Create cluster:

bash

gcloud container clusters create my-cluster \
  --zone=us-central1-a \
  --num-nodes=3

Resize node pool:

bash

gcloud container clusters resize my-cluster \
  --node-pool=default-pool \
  --num-nodes=5 \
  --zone=us-central1-a

Cloud Storage

List buckets:

bash

gcloud storage buckets list

Create bucket:

bash

gcloud storage buckets create gs://my-bucket --location=us-central1

List objects:

bash

gcloud storage ls gs://my-bucket/

Copy files:

bash

# Upload
gcloud storage cp local-file.txt gs://my-bucket/

# Download
gcloud storage cp gs://my-bucket/file.txt ./

# Recursive
gcloud storage cp -r ./local-dir gs://my-bucket/

Sync directory:

bash

gcloud storage rsync -r ./local-dir gs://my-bucket/remote-dir

Cloud SQL

List instances:

bash

gcloud sql instances list

Create instance:

bash

gcloud sql instances create my-instance \
  --database-version=POSTGRES_15 \
  --tier=db-f1-micro \
  --region=us-central1

Connect via proxy:

bash

gcloud sql connect my-instance --user=postgres

Create database:

bash

gcloud sql databases create mydb --instance=my-instance

BigQuery

List datasets:

bash

bq ls

Run query:

bash

bq query --use_legacy_sql=false 'SELECT * FROM dataset.table LIMIT 10'

Create dataset:

bash

bq mk --dataset my_dataset

Load data:

bash

bq load --source_format=CSV my_dataset.my_table gs://bucket/data.csv

Pub/Sub

List topics:

bash

gcloud pubsub topics list

Create topic:

bash

gcloud pubsub topics create my-topic

Publish message:

bash

gcloud pubsub topics publish my-topic --message="Hello"

Create subscription:

bash

gcloud pubsub subscriptions create my-sub --topic=my-topic

Pull messages:

bash

gcloud pubsub subscriptions pull my-sub --auto-ack

Secret Manager

List secrets:

bash

gcloud secrets list

Create secret:

bash

echo -n "my-secret-value" | gcloud secrets create my-secret --data-file=-

Access secret:

bash

gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=my-secret

Add new version:

bash

echo -n "new-value" | gcloud secrets versions add my-secret --data-file=-

IAM

List service accounts:

bash

gcloud iam service-accounts list

Create service account:

bash

gcloud iam service-accounts create my-sa \
  --display-name="My Service Account"

Create key:

bash

gcloud iam service-accounts keys create key.json \
  --iam-account=my-sa@PROJECT.iam.gserviceaccount.com

Add IAM binding:

bash

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID \
  --member="serviceAccount:my-sa@PROJECT.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
  --role="roles/storage.admin"

Cloud Build

Submit build:

bash

gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/PROJECT/IMAGE

List builds:

bash

gcloud builds list

View build logs:

bash

gcloud builds log BUILD_ID

Artifact Registry

List repositories:

bash

gcloud artifacts repositories list

Configure Docker:

bash

gcloud auth configure-docker us-central1-docker.pkg.dev

Logging

Read logs:

bash

gcloud logging read "resource.type=cloud_run_revision" --limit=50

Tail logs:

bash

gcloud logging tail "resource.type=gce_instance"

App Engine

Deploy app:

bash

gcloud app deploy

View logs:

bash

gcloud app logs tail

Browse app:

bash

gcloud app browse

Useful Flags

Format as JSON:

bash

gcloud compute instances list --format=json

Format as table with specific columns:

bash

gcloud compute instances list --format="table(name,zone,status)"

Filter results:

bash

gcloud compute instances list --filter="status=RUNNING"

Quiet mode (no prompts):

bash

gcloud compute instances delete my-vm --quiet

Cheat Sheet

Quick reference:

bash

gcloud cheat-sheet

Interactive shell:

bash

gcloud interactive

gcloud

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SKILL.md Content

GCloud Skill

Authentication

Project & Configuration

Compute Engine (VMs)

Cloud Run

Cloud Functions

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Cloud Storage

Cloud SQL

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Secret Manager

IAM

Cloud Build

Artifact Registry

Logging

App Engine

Useful Flags

Cheat Sheet