July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
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Configurations in the Google Cloud SDK
The Google Cloud SDK and included tools like gcloud are heavily configurable. Many aspects of the SDK can be tweaked to modify core functionality and behavior to suit specific needs. When first using gcloud, we ran gcloud init. This command triggered a workflow that provisioned a few things for us:
- Created a default configuration to store initial configuration settings
- Set a network proxy if needed
- Performed a gcloud auth login to acquire an authorization token
- Set an initial value for the active Google Cloud project ID
- Set default Compute Engine configuration properties
- Stored user preferences for usage reporting
The result of running gcloud init is that tools like gcloud are more contextually aware ...