Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Global flags

For all commands in the gcloud CLI, users can specify a number of global flags to modify command behavior. The --account, --project, and --configuration flags allow you to override the current defaults for your environment. These are useful to avoid modifying or switching configurations to run a few quick commands. Other global flags including --quiet, --flatten, --format, and --verbosity allow users to modify the output from running commands—often useful when running scripts or debugging operations.

A great way to see how gcloud performs various actions is to use the --log-http global flag. For instance, running gcloud compute instances list --log-http shows that gcloud first fetches all known regions, then all known zones for ...