Google cloud CLI cheatsheet

Basic google cloud CLI commands

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Google cloud platform CLI commands

Table of contents

  1. Compute engine
  2. Artifact registry

Compute engine

List disk images available for instance provisioning

# list images
gcloud compute images list
# list images uri's
gcloud compute images list --uri

Start, stop and delete compute engine instances

# autocompletion is available
gcloud compute instances start "$instance"
gcloud compute instances stop "$instance"
gcloud compute instances delete "$instance"

List all external addresses for an instance

gcloud compute addresses list --filter="name=$instance"

Get current region

# it has to be current project's region
gcloud config get-value compute/region

Artifact registry

List locations hosting registries

gcloud artifacts locations list

Authenticate docker daemon to the registry hosted at $region 

# DO NOT EXPOSE THE SERVICE ACCOUNT KEY
cat /path/to/gcloud.service.account.key.json | docker login -u _json_key --password-stdin "https://$region-docker.pkg.dev"

Manage images

# tag image for push to private gcloud registry
docker tag "$image:$tag" "$region-docker.pkg.dev/$project_id/$registry_name/$image:$tag"

# push image to the registry
docker push "$region-docker.pkg.dev/$project_id/$registry_name/$image:$tag"

# pull image (docker daemon has to be authenticated)
docker pull "$region-docker.pkg.dev/$project_id/$registry_name/$image:$tag"