GCP (Google Cloud Platform)#

General#

  • List the current configuration, including the current project

    $ gcloud config list

  • Set the active project

    $ gcloud config set project <PROJECT_ID>

  • View information about your Google Cloud SDK installation and the active configuration

    $ gcloud info

  • Update your Google Cloud SDK installation

    $ gcloud components update

  • List the available regions

    $ gcloud compute regions list

    e.g. europe-west1 (Belgium, low CO2)

  • List the roles granted to a resource

    $ gcloud iam list-grantable-roles

Authentication#

  • View credentialed accounts:

    $ gcloud auth list

  • Set the active account:

    $ gcloud config set account <ACCOUNT>

Tips & Tricks#

Persistently Store Configurations in Cloud Shell#

  • Create a plain text file somwehere and write your stuff in there

    PROJECT_ID=12312212
REGION=europe-west1

  • This file can be sourced with

    $ source some/path/config

    and the correct setting of the environment variables can be checked with

    $ echo $PROJECT_ID
$ echo $REGION

  • To make this automatic for each new Cloud Shell that you open, modify your ~/.profile and append

    source some/path/config

Compute#

Compute Engine#

  • list the CPU platforms/types in a particular zone

    $ gcloud compute zone describe

Storage#

Cloud Storage#

Command Line Interface#

  • create a bucket

    $ gsutil mb gs://<BUCKET_NAME>

  • copy a file into a bucket

    $ gsutil cp <LOCAL_FILE_NAME> gs://<BUCKET_NAME>

  • sync the contents of two buckets

    $ gsutil rsync ...

Python SDK#

  • create a bucket

    from google.cloud import storage

# connect the client
client = storage.Client()

# create a bucket
bucket = client.create_bucket('bucket-name')

  • upload a file to an existing bucket

    from google.cloud import storage

# connect the client
client = storage.Client()

# upload the file
bucket = client.get_bucket('bucket-name')
new_blob = bucket.blob('remote/filename')
new_blob.upload_from_filename(filename='local/filename')

Docker#

https://cloud.google.com/deep-learning-containers/docs/getting-started-local

  • Use gcloud as the credential helper for Docker

    $ gcloud auth configure-docker