Useful commands for GCP when using the gcloud cli tools

Cheat Sheet & Help

Start here for a long list of useful commands.

gcloud cheat-sheet

Options are described in ‘help’

gcloud help

This will give you the latest and up-to-date information for your version of gcloud cli. You can also search in the help via a command

gcloud help -- «earch term»

this will give a limited set of results and helps find answers quickly.

Configuration sets

I needed to have multiple logins, and the best way to achieve that objective was via configuration sets.

gcloud config configurations 
gcloud config configurations list
gcloud config configurations create «name»
gcloud config configurations activate «name»
gcloud config configurations describe «name»

Switch projects

Usually GCP will have multiple projects, and you will need to specify which one to use.

gcloud config set project «my-project-id»

Get the load balancers for the project with external IP addresses

It’s important to know the external interface to GCP, which are enumerated as ‘forwarding-rules’.

gcloud compute forwarding-rules list