GCP

Basics

Auth

gcloud auth login

Set project and zone

gcloud config set compute/zone us-east4-a
# see es command for more

Install gcloud CLI

curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install google-cloud-sdk

Details

Cloning a VM

• Create an image of an existing VM, with the same name. It will be added under...

Compute Engine > VMs > Machine images

• Create a new VM from the machine image