GCP cheatsheet

Basics

Setting default project

gcloud config set project [project-id]

Setting default zone

gcloud config set compute/zone [zone]

Eg.

gcloud config set compute/zone europe-west1-b

Logging into cloud shell from your terminal (not from Google Cloud Console web app)

gcloud alpha cloud-shell ssh

Google Kubernetes Engine

Fetching credentials for a running cluster - required to perform any deployment

gcloud container clusters get-credentials [cluster-name]