Gcloud

Question 1

GCP services have specific CLI tools

Answer 1

1. Cloud Storage - gsutil
2. Cloud BigQuery - bq
3. Cloud Bigtable - cbt
4. Kubernetes - kubectl (in addition to Gcloud which is used to manage clusters)

Question 2

gcloud init

Answer 2

initialize or reinitialize gcloud

Question 3

gcloud config list

Answer 3

lists all properties of the active configuration

Question 4

Sets the specified property in your active configuration

Answer 4

–> gcloud config set core/project VALUE
–> gcloud config set compute/region VALUE
–> gcloud config set compute/zone VALUE
–> gcloud config set core/verbosity VALUE(debug)

Question 5

Syntax - gcloud config set SECTION/PROPERTY VALUE

Answer 5

–> core, compute - SECTIONS
–> project, region, zone - PROPERTIES
E.g. : gcloud config set compute/region us-east2
gcloud config set compute/zone us-east1-b

Question 6

Creating Compute Instances

Answer 6

gcloud compute instances create [NAME]

Question 7

Creating Instance Templates

Answer 7

gcloud compute instance-templates create/delete/describe/list

Question 8

Using Instance Tempate to create an instance

Answer 8

gcloud compute instances create my-test-vm –sourc e-instance-template=my-instance-templatewith-custom-image