Essential Tools for Cloud Platform

The Cloud SDK is a set of tools for Cloud Platform. It contains gcloud, gsutil, and bq, which you can use to access Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, and other products and services from the command-line. You can run these tools interactively or in your automated scripts.

Manage Virtual Machine Instances

gcloud makes it easy to manage your fleet of virtual machines on Compute Engine ‐ everything from creating, starting and managing VM instances to rolling your own VM images. You can also use gcloud to make SSH connections to your instances.

Networks, Firewalls, Disk Storage and More

You can use gcloud to manage Compute Engine networks, firewalls, disk storage, and more without having to use the Cloud Platform console. With gcloud, managing configurations for your Compute Engine environment is just a few keystrokes away.

Use your Favorite Languages

Client libraries for Java, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, .NET, and PHP are available for installation from the appropriate package managers.

Run Local Service Emulators

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.

Coverage Across Cloud Platform

Cloud SDK includes integrated command line tools for many Cloud Platform products.

  • Compute Engine
  • Kubernetes Engine
  • Deployment Manager
  • Cloud DNS
  • Cloud IAM
  • Cloud Storage
  • App Engine
  • Cloud ML Engine
  • Cloud SQL
  • Cloud Dataproc
  • Cloud Logging
  • BigQuery
  • Cloud Dataflow
  • Resource Manager
  • Source Repositories

Cloud SDK Features

Command-line interface for Cloud Platform products and services

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

Client Libraries and Optional Components

After you’ve installed Cloud SDK, you can also install language specific cloud libraries and optional Cloud SDK components.

Google Cloud Client Libraries

Install language-specific client libraries for Cloud Platform products.

Google Cloud Client Libraries

Google API Client Libraries

Install language-specific client libraries for additional Google APIs.

Google API Client Libraries

Managing Optional Components

Install optional Cloud SDK Components.

Managing Cloud SDK Components

Cloud SDK Pricing

Cloud SDK is free of charge for Google Cloud Platform customers.

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