Google cloud hands-on guide: Cloud Shell & gcloud

qwiklabs GCP notes.

• Cloud Shell is a Debian-based virtual machine with a persistent 5GB home directory
• gcloud command-line access to computing resources hosted on Google Cloud Platform

cloud shell is a vm with 25G / space, and 5G /home,

google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
none             25G   16G  7.6G  68% /
tmpfs           853M     0  853M   0% /dev
tmpfs           853M     0  853M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1       4.8G   11M  4.6G   1% /home
/dev/sda1        25G   16G  7.6G  68% /etc/hosts
shm              64M     0   64M   0% /dev/shm
google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ uname -a
Linux cs-6000-devshell-vm-f5a7ad0f-f2f5-403b-a972-a207b06589c8 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u5 (2017-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

gcloud – google cloud cli

gcloud config list project

google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ gcloud config list project
[core]
project = qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f

Your active configuration is: [cloudshell-25806]

gcloud help

google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ gcloud -h
Usage: gcloud [optional flags] 
  group may be           alpha | app | auth | beta | components | compute |
                         config | container | dataflow | dataproc | datastore |
                         debug | deployment-manager | dns | domains |
                         endpoints | firebase | iam | kms | logging | ml |
                         ml-engine | organizations | projects |
                         service-management | services | source | spanner |
                         sql | topic
  command may be         docker | feedback | help | info | init | version

For detailed information on this command and its flags, run:
  gcloud --help

same result
gcloud config --help
gcloud help config

gcloud config list

google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ gcloud config list
[component_manager]
disable_update_check = True
[compute]
gce_metadata_read_timeout_sec = 5
[core]
account = google150652_student@qwiklabs.net
check_gce_metadata = False
disable_usage_reporting = False
project = qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f
[metrics]
environment = devshell

Your active configuration is: [cloudshell-25806]

gcloud config list –all

google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ gcloud config list --all
[app]
cloud_build_timeout (unset)
promote_by_default (unset)
stop_previous_version (unset)
use_runtime_builders (unset)
[auth]
disable_credentials (unset)
[billing]
quota_project (unset)
[component_manager]
additional_repositories (unset)
disable_update_check = True
[compute]
gce_metadata_read_timeout_sec = 5
region (unset)
use_new_list_usable_subnets_api (unset)
zone (unset)
[container]
build_timeout (unset)
cluster (unset)
use_application_default_credentials (unset)
use_client_certificate (unset)
[core]
account = google150652_student@qwiklabs.net
check_gce_metadata = False
custom_ca_certs_file (unset)
default_regional_backend_service (unset)
disable_color (unset)
disable_prompts (unset)
disable_usage_reporting = False
log_http (unset)
max_log_days (unset)
pass_credentials_to_gsutil (unset)
project = qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f
show_structured_logs (unset)
trace_token (unset)
user_output_enabled (unset)
verbosity (unset)
[dataproc]
region (unset)
[functions]
region (unset)
[interactive]
bottom_bindings_line (unset)
bottom_status_line (unset)
completion_menu_lines (unset)
context (unset)
fixed_prompt_position (unset)
help_lines (unset)
hidden (unset)
justify_bottom_lines (unset)
manpage_generator (unset)
multi_column_completion_menu (unset)
prompt (unset)
show_help (unset)
suggest (unset)
[metrics]
environment = devshell
[ml_engine]
local_python (unset)
polling_interval (unset)
[proxy]
address (unset)
password (unset)
port (unset)
rdns (unset)
type (unset)
username (unset)
[spanner]
instance (unset)

Your active configuration is: [cloudshell-25806]

Use the  gsutil tool in Cloud Shell to manage Cloud Storage resources. 

gsutil – google storage utility

upload local file to cloud space

google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ gsutil mb gs://myspace-222
Creating gs://myspace-222/...
google150652_student@qwiklabs-gcp-7546ccf38d44e17f:~$ gsutil cp test.md gs://myspace-222
Copying file://test.md [Content-Type=application/octet-stream]...
- [1 files][   76.0 B/   76.0 B]
Operation completed over 1 objects/76.0 B.