Google Cloud Platform command line

Question 1

Command to list your projects that are accessible by the active account

Answer 1

gcloud projects list

Question 2

Command to set the region for your project

Answer 2

gcloud config set compute/region “region name”

where “region name” is us-east1 or us-central1 or europe-west1

Question 3

Command to set your default project

Answer 3

gcloud config set project myProjects

Question 4

Command to set the zone for your project

Answer 4

gcloud config set compute/zone “zone name”

where “zone name” is us-central1-c, europe-west1-a

Question 5

Command to list the zones where the compute service is available (i.e. us-central1-a, us-central1-b, europe-west1-a)

Answer 5

gcloud compute zone list

Question 6

Command to secure shell into a virtual machine or compute instance

Answer 6

gcloud compute ssh “virtual-machine-name”

You can’t have spaces in the name so you must have it all one word or put dashes in

Question 7

Command to list the regions where you can do Cloud Functions (AWS equivalent of Lambdas)

Answer 7

gcloud functions region list

Question 8

Command to list all the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) in a zone

Answer 8

gcloud compute zones list –uri

Question 9

Command to list a project’s DNS info

Answer 9

gcloud dns projects-info describe

Question 10

Command to provide detailed information about a project

Answer 10

gcloud compute project-info describe –project

Question 11

Command to list credentialed accounts

Answer 11

gcloud auth list

Question 12

Command to create a project

Answer 12

gcloud projects create [Project_ID]

Project_ID is different from the Project Name. It can’t be changed but is still basically just a name with letters and numbers between 6 and 30 characters long

Question 13

Command to create a project and also give it a name

Answer 13

gcloud projects create [Project_ID] –name=”myProjectName”

Question 14

Command to delete a project

Answer 14

gcloud projects delete [Project_ID]

Question 15

Command to show metadata for a project

Answer 15

gcloud projects describe [Project_ID]

Question 16

Command to get IAM policies for a project

Answer 16

gcloud projects get-iam-policy [Project_ID]

Question 17

Command to add an IAM policy binding to the existing IAM policy of a project

Answer 17

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding [Project_ID] –member [Member] –role [Role]

Question 18

Command to remove an IAM policy binding to the existing policy of a project

Answer 18

gcloud project remove-iam-policy-binding [Project_ID] –member=[Member] –role=[Role]

Question 19

Command to set the IAM policy of a project (the initial step)

Answer 19

gcloud projects set-iam-policy [Project_ID] [Policy_File]

Policy_File is the YAML or JSON file that contains all of your IAM settings (the policy)

Question 20

Command to update the name of a project

Answer 20

gcloud projects update [Project_ID] –name=”the-new-project-name”

Question 21

Command to install Stackdriver monitoring agent

Answer 21

curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/install-monitoring-agent.sh

Question 22

Command to install Stackdriver logging agent

Answer 22

curl -sSO https://dl.google.com/cloudagents/install-logging-agent.sh

Question 23

Command to create a deployment

Answer 23

gcloud deployment-manager deployments create [Deployment_Name] –config configfile.yaml –description “MyDeployment”

The –config and –description flags are optional

Question 24

Command to delete a deployment

Answer 24

gcloud deployment-manager deployments delete [Deployment_Name]

Question 25

Command to provide information about a deployment

Answer 25

gcloud deployment-manager deployments describe [Deployment_Name]

Question 26

Command to list deployments associated with the current project

Answer 26

gcloud deployment-manager deployments list

Question 27

Command to stop a currently running or pending operation on a deployment

Answer 27

gcloud deployment-manager deployments stop [Deployment_Name]

Question 28

Command to update a deployment with new configuration information

Answer 28

gcloud deployment-manager deployments update [Deployment_Name] --config new_config_file.yaml

Question 29

Command to reserve an IP address for your project

Answer 29

gcloud compute addresses create [name for address] --addresses [XX.XXX.XXX.XXX (the IP address you want)]

Question 30

Command to get info on an IP address for your project

Answer 30

gcloud compute address describe [name of address]

Question 31

Command to list IP address of your project

Answer 31

gcloud compute addresses describe

Question 32

Command to create disks

Answer 32

gcloud compute disks create [Disk_Name] --zone us-east1-a

Question 33

Gcloud disk commands

Answer 33

gcloud compute disks [command] command can be create, delete, describe, list, move, resize, snapshot, update

Question 34

Gcloud firewall rules commands

Answer 34

gcloud compute firewall-rules [command] command can be create, delete, update, list, describe

Question 35

Gcloud health-checks commands

Answer 35

gcloud compute health-checks [command] command can be create, delete, update, list, describe create and update can also have protocols with them gcloud compute health-checks create [protocol] protocol can be http, https, ssl, and tcp

Question 36

Gcloud image related commands

Answer 36

gcloud compute images [command] command can be create, delete, update, list, describe, add-labels, remove-labels, export, import

Question 37

Gcloud instance template related commands

Answer 37

gcloud compute instance-templates [command] command can be create, delete, list, describe

Question 38

Gcloud instance related commands

Answer 38

gcloud compute instances [command] command can be create delete, list, describe, start, stop, move, update, update-container

Question 39

Gcloud commands to get project information

Answer 39

gcloud compute project-info [command] command can be describe, update, add-metadata, remove-metadata, set-usage-bucket

Question 40

Gcloud region commands

Answer 40

gcloud compute region [command] command can be describe or list

Question 41

Gcloud snapshot commands

Answer 41

gcloud compute snapshot [command] command can be delete, describe, list, update, add-labels, remove-labels

Question 42

Gcloud configuration commands

Answer 42

gcloud config [command] command can be get-value, list, set, unset It can also be configurations [subcommand] where subcommand is activate, create, delete, describe, list

Question 43

Gcloud builds commands

Answer 43

gcloud builds [command] commands can be cancel, describe, list, log submit

Question 44

Gcloud clusters commands

Answer 44

gcloud container clusters [command] command can be create, delete, describe, get-credentials, list, resize update, upgrade

Question 45

Gcloud node pool commands

Answer 45

gcloud container node-pools [command] command can be create, delete, describe, list, rollback, update

Question 46

Gcloud container operations commands

Answer 46

gcloud container operations [command] command can be describe, list, wait

Question 47

Gcloud container registry commands

Answer 47

gcloud container images [command] command can be add-tag, delete, describe, list, list-tags, untag

Question 48

Gcloud IAM roles commands

Answer 48

gcloud iam roles [command] command can be copy, create, delete, describe, list, undelete, update

Question 49

Gcloud IAM service account commands

Answer 49

gcloud iam service-accounts [command] command can be create, delete, describe, list, update, add-iam-policy-binding, remove-iam-policy-binding, set-iam-policy, sign-blob

Question 50

Kubernetes commands to create a pod with a yaml configuration file

Answer 50

kubectl create -f podinfo.yaml

Question 51

Kubernetes command to get info about a resource

Answer 51

kubectl get [resource type] resource type can be pods, deployment, replicationcontroler

Question 52

Kubernetes command to create and run an image

Answer 52

kubectl run [name] --image=[image name]

Question 53

Kubernetes command to expose a resource to a new Kubernetes service

Answer 53

kubectl expose [resource type] [resource name] example: kubectl expose pod valid-pod --port=444 --name=frontend

Question 54

Kubernetes command to delete a resource

Answer 54

kubectl delete [resource] [resource name] example: deletes pods and services with the label "myLabel" kubectl delete pods,services -l name=myLabel