Getting Started with Cloud Shell and gcloud
LAB 1
Overview
Cloud Shell provides you with command-line access to computing resources hosted on Google Cloud. Cloud Shell is a Debian-based virtual machine with a persistent 5-GB home directory, which makes it easy for you to manage your Google Cloud projects and resources. The gcloud
command-line tool and other utilities you need are pre-installed in Cloud Shell, which allows you to get up and running quickly.
Setup
Activating Cloud Shell
Cloud Shell is a virtual machine that is loaded with development tools. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory and runs on the Google Cloud. Cloud Shell provides command-line access to your Google Cloud resources.
Hitting the cloud shell icon on the top right activates it as shown below.
Listing Active Account
Listing Project ID
Configuring Environment
Get Project Information
Check Gcloud config
Export Environment Variables
Project ID
Region/Zone
Creating a VM with Gcloud
gcloud compute
= Enables user to manage compute resourcesinstances create
= Create a new instance in the virtual environmentgcelab2
= name of the VM--machine-type
= user selected machine type--zone
= region and zone user likes the VM to be spawned in
Installing Components
gcloud interactive
has auto prompting for commands and flags and displays inline help snippets in the lower section of the pane as the command is typed.
You can use dropdown menus to auto-complete static information, such as command and sub-command names, flag names, and enumerated flag values.
Install and enable
Autocomplete Mode
We were basically able to use the Gcloud interactive shell together with the autocomplete feature and explanation of commands and grab the brief description of the VM that we had just created as shown below.
SSH into VM (via Gcloud)
Initiate an ssh connection
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