Gcloud how to

how-to-gcloud.sh

# Updapte components
gcloud components update

# Display local configuration folder
gcloud info --format='get(config.paths.global_config_dir)'

# display help
gcloud [command] -h

# Create a configuration (project + profile)
gcloud init // then follow the instructions   ### TIP: You can use this command to reset previous config. For instance when you need to switch project ###
OR
gcloud config configurations create

# list your created configurations
gcloud config configurations list // the active configuration shoudl set with IS_ACTIVE at true

# View current configuration Cloud SDK properties
gcloud config list

# Describe a configuration (display properties in a yaml format)
gcloud config configurations describe [config_name]

# Switch between configurations
gcloud config configurations activate [config_name]

# Set specific value in the configuration
gcloud config set [...]
e.g: gcloud config set project [PROJECT-ID]

# Use an SSH connection to connect a compute engine instance
gcloud compute ssh  [USER@]INSTANCE [optional flags]  [-- SSH_ARGS ...]
e.g: gcloud compute ssh staging --zone europe-west1-b

# Copy files
gcloud compute copy-files  [[USER@]INSTANCE:]SRC [[[USER@]INSTANCE:]SRC ...]  [[USER@]INSTANCE:]DEST [optional flags]


# Manage credentials
gcloud auth

# List credential account
gcloud auth list

# Authenticate through service account and manage GAE with these credentials
gcloud auth activate-service-account  [ACCOUNT] --key-file=KEY_FILE [optional flags]

# Manage active application default credential (used by maven plugin for instance or application layer GoolgleCredential.getDefaultApplication() )
gcloud auth application-default login

# Set the active account
gcloud config set account `ACCOUNT`

# Set the current project
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

# Get manual according a term
gcloud alpha search-help is now available in alpha. Run gcloud alpha
        search-help [TERM] to find gcloud commands whose help text contains
        [TERM].

# Rollback to a previous version
gcloud components update --version XXXX

### AUTHENTICATION ###
# Authorize access to GCP, impersonating a given service account
gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file [PATH]

# List credential account (user or service account)
gcloud auth list

# Internal detailed about specified credentials (input is account from list command) useful to get some data like token
gcloud auth describe [account]

# Print token for the active account
gcloud auth print-access-token
gcloud auth print-refresh-token

# Acquire new user credential to call the Google API with gcloud
gcloud auth application-default login

# Print the access token for your current application default credential
gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

# Revoke previously generated Application Default Credentials.
gcloud auth application-default revoke