Overview#

Google Cloud SDK is a Command-line interface for Google Cloud Platform products and services

Google Cloud SDK includes tools:

• gcloud - manages authentication, local configuration, developer workflow, and interactions with the Google Cloud Platform API.
• gsutil - Google Cloud Platform provides command-line access to manage Google Cloud Storage Buckets and objects.
• bq - BigQuery - allows you to run queries, manipulate datasets, tables, and entities in BigQuery through the command-line.
• kubectl - orchestrates the deployment and management of Kubernetes container clusters on Google Cloud Platform.
• Google Cloud Tools for PowerShell is a collection of Windows PowerShell cmdlets for managing Google Cloud Platform resources within the Windows PowerShell environment.

Google Cloud SDK is also available as a Virtual Machine instance with Google Cloud SDK already installed via Google Cloud Shell

Google Cloud SDK Cloud SDK emulators for Google Cloud Pub-Sub and Google Cloud Datastore allow you to simulate these services in your environment for local development, testing and validation. You start and manage service emulators using the gcloud tool.

Category#

Google Cloud Platform

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Gcloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Google Cloud Shell