Gcloud useful commands
gcloud is a command line utility very useful to manage you projects on Google cloud.
I am a beginner with google cloud and found the UI quite confusing. A bit less than AWS thought. I do not know why cloud giant (AWS, Google...) cannot hire good designer to craft a simple and efficient UI. Perhaps because the target user are developers and for them the most important is that is works!
They should take example on Digital Ocean, that I love and trust a lot. Why? Because it is very elegantly designed.
Anyway when trying to forget all the useless information that is displayed in the UI. And thanks to the tutorials (like the hello world in node.js), I have understood a bit more how the hell it work.
An important utility to manage project is gcloud. So we are going to identify some useful commands to dig a bit more in what it can do.
The full gcloud doc is available here.
Authenticate with your google account
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/auth/login
gcloud auth login
Open a browser tab displaying an oauth consent screen and ask you to connect to you google account. If you are not logged yet. It is the first step to do, to have authorization to manage your projects.
List your projects on google cloud
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/projects/list
gcloud projects list
Display a list of your projects The name if the human name and project_id is an unique project id derived from the human name.
Get information about your gcloud environment
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/info
gcloud info
Display :
Installed components
Default project
Important files (logs...) that you can access
....
Well you have got a problem with your local install, typing this command could be a good start.
Open an app in the browser
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/app/browse
gcloud app browse
When inside the app directory, typing this command try to load the online version
Deploy an app
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/app/deploy
gcloud app deploy
When in the local app code directory upload the files following the guidance of a specific YAML file.
If like me at your first attempt you have the following message
ERROR: (gcloud.app.deploy) You do not have permission to access app [bookshelf] (or it may not exist): Operation not allowed
You should try a debug mode as explained here.
$ gcloud app deploy --log-http --verbosity=debug
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