From charlesreid1

gcloud is the command line interface to the Google Cloud SDK.

Link: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/

To install, basically just extract it in place. You can also install the scripts to your path.

The SDK also has client libraries that allow you to run commands from scripts in different languages.

How-to guides for gcloud client libraries: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/how-to

Divided into:

  • installing sdk
  • initializing sdk
  • authorizing tools
  • managing components
  • managing configurations
  • managing properties
  • scripting google cloud commands