Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Summary

In this chapter, we looked over the main management tools that can be used to manage GCP services. It's important to reiterate that you should understand which services can be managed by which command-line tool and the basic command-line structure. Let's review what we would use each tool for:

• gcloud can be used to manage many GCP services, but it is most commonly used to manage Compute Engine VM instances, Cloud SQL instances, Kubernetes Engine clusters, and Cloud Deployment Manager deployments.
• Use cbt to manage Bigtable.
• Use bq to manage BigQuery.
• Use gsutil to manage Cloud Storage. We need to understand the different syntax for creating buckets, copying data, and removing buckets.
• Deployment Manager can be used to automate a ...