Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) Cheatsheet

Authentication and Configuration

gcloud auth login

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

List authenticated accounts

gcloud auth list

Set default project

gcloud config set project <project-id>

Get current project

gcloud config get-value project

Set default region

gcloud config set compute/region <region>

Set default zone

gcloud config set compute/zone <zone>

List all configurations

gcloud config list

Create new configuration

gcloud config configurations create <config-name>

Switch configuration

gcloud config configurations activate <config-name>

Project Management

List all projects

gcloud projects list

Create a new project

gcloud projects create <project-id> --name="<project-name>"

Delete a project

gcloud projects delete <project-id>

Get project information

gcloud projects describe <project-id>

Enable API service

gcloud services enable <service-name>

List enabled services

gcloud services list --enabled

Compute Engine

List all VM instances

gcloud compute instances list

Create a VM instance

gcloud compute instances create <instance-name> \
  --zone=<zone> \
  --machine-type=<machine-type> \
  --image-family=<image-family> \
  --image-project=<image-project>

Start a VM instance

gcloud compute instances start <instance-name> --zone=<zone>

Stop a VM instance

gcloud compute instances stop <instance-name> --zone=<zone>

Delete a VM instance

gcloud compute instances delete <instance-name> --zone=<zone>

SSH into VM instance

gcloud compute ssh <instance-name> --zone=<zone>

Get VM instance details

gcloud compute instances describe <instance-name> --zone=<zone>

List machine types

gcloud compute machine-types list --zones=<zone>

List available images

gcloud compute images list

Cloud Storage

List all buckets

gcloud storage buckets list

Create a bucket

gcloud storage buckets create gs://<bucket-name>

Delete a bucket

gcloud storage buckets delete gs://<bucket-name>

Upload file to bucket

gcloud storage cp <local-file> gs://<bucket-name>/

Download file from bucket

gcloud storage cp gs://<bucket-name>/<file> <local-path>

Sync directory with bucket

gcloud storage rsync <local-directory> gs://<bucket-name>

List objects in bucket

gcloud storage ls gs://<bucket-name>

Make bucket public

gcloud storage buckets add-iam-policy-binding gs://<bucket-name> \
  --member="allUsers" --role="roles/storage.objectViewer"

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

List GKE clusters

gcloud container clusters list

Create a GKE cluster

gcloud container clusters create <cluster-name> \
  --zone=<zone> \
  --num-nodes=<node-count>

Get cluster credentials

gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster-name> --zone=<zone>

Resize cluster

gcloud container clusters resize <cluster-name> --num-nodes=<node-count> --zone=<zone>

Delete GKE cluster

gcloud container clusters delete <cluster-name> --zone=<zone>

List node pools

gcloud container node-pools list --cluster=<cluster-name> --zone=<zone>

Create node pool

gcloud container node-pools create <pool-name> \
  --cluster=<cluster-name> \
  --zone=<zone> \
  --num-nodes=<node-count>

App Engine

Deploy application

gcloud app deploy

Browse deployed application

gcloud app browse

View application logs

gcloud app logs tail -s default

List versions

gcloud app versions list

Set traffic allocation

gcloud app services set-traffic --splits=<version>=<traffic-percentage>

Delete version

gcloud app versions delete <version>

Cloud Functions

List all functions

gcloud functions list

Deploy a function

gcloud functions deploy <function-name> \
  --runtime=<runtime> \
  --trigger-http \
  --source=<source-path>

Call a function

gcloud functions call <function-name>

Get function details

gcloud functions describe <function-name>

View function logs

gcloud functions logs read <function-name>

Delete a function

gcloud functions delete <function-name>

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

List IAM policies

gcloud projects get-iam-policy <project-id>

Add IAM policy binding

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding <project-id> \
  --member="user:<email>" \
  --role="<role>"

Remove IAM policy binding

gcloud projects remove-iam-policy-binding <project-id> \
  --member="user:<email>" \
  --role="<role>"

List service accounts

gcloud iam service-accounts list

Create service account

gcloud iam service-accounts create <account-name> \
  --display-name="<display-name>"

Create service account key

gcloud iam service-accounts keys create <key-file.json> \
  --iam-account=<service-account-email>

List IAM roles

gcloud iam roles list

Networking

List VPC networks

gcloud compute networks list

Create VPC network

gcloud compute networks create <network-name> --subnet-mode=<mode>

List subnets

gcloud compute networks subnets list

Create subnet

gcloud compute networks subnets create <subnet-name> \
  --network=<network-name> \
  --range=<cidr-range> \
  --region=<region>

List firewall rules

gcloud compute firewall-rules list

Create firewall rule

gcloud compute firewall-rules create <rule-name> \
  --allow=<protocol>:<port> \
  --source-ranges=<cidr>

List static IP addresses

gcloud compute addresses list

Reserve static IP

gcloud compute addresses create <address-name> --region=<region>

Cloud SQL

List SQL instances

gcloud sql instances list

Create SQL instance

gcloud sql instances create <instance-name> \
  --database-version=<version> \
  --tier=<tier> \
  --region=<region>

Connect to SQL instance

gcloud sql connect <instance-name> --user=<username>

Create database

gcloud sql databases create <database-name> --instance=<instance-name>

List databases

gcloud sql databases list --instance=<instance-name>

Export database

gcloud sql export sql <instance-name> gs://<bucket-name>/<file-name> \
  --database=<database-name>

Monitoring and Logging

View logs

gcloud logging read "resource.type=<resource-type>"

List log entries

gcloud logging entries list --filter="<filter>"

Create log-based metric

gcloud logging metrics create <metric-name> --description="<description>" \
  --log-filter="<filter>"

List monitoring metrics

gcloud monitoring metrics list

Create alerting policy

gcloud alpha monitoring policies create --policy-from-file=<policy-file.yaml>

Billing and Quotas

List billing accounts

gcloud billing accounts list

Link project to billing account

gcloud billing projects link <project-id> --billing-account=<account-id>

List quotas

gcloud compute project-info describe --format="table(quotas[].metric,quotas[].limit,quotas[].usage)"

List regions and zones

gcloud compute regions list
gcloud compute zones list

Common Utilities

Get gcloud version

gcloud version

Update gcloud components

gcloud components update

Install additional components

gcloud components install <component-name>

List installed components

gcloud components list

Get help for command

gcloud <command> --help

Set output format

gcloud config set core/format <format>

Enable/disable command completion

gcloud info --show-log

Clear cache

gcloud config configurations list

Show current configuration

gcloud info