Google Cloud Platform Interfaces

Google Cloud Console

Google Cloud Console is the main tool for administrating Google Cloud Platform.

In order to use it, you must select a Project first.

It also requires to setup, in your project, a credit card (or bank account) for billing.

Google Cloud Shell

It is a stateful cloud container with no additional cost, running remotely, based on a linux environment with gcloud command, editors, python and other tools.

Command Line Interfaces

Google Cloud SDK

Command Line Utility and SDK (including almost all libraries local to your computer).

Features

Tools for Cloud Platform
It manages VMs
Networking, Storage, Firewall, Disk and more.
You can use your favorite language.
You can run Local Service Emulator

Tools

gcloud: manages authentication, local configuration, developer workflow and interactions with GCP APIs.
gsutil: access to manage Cloud Storage buckets and objects.
Powershell cmdlets: managing GCP resources with Powershell.
bq tool: run queries, manipulate datasets, tables and entities in BigQuery
kubectl: orchestrates deployment and management of Kuberenetes container clusters in gcloud.

Commands

gcloud init 
gcloud auth list 
gcloud info 
gcloud help

API Explorer

You can launch API Explorer for a given API, with doc about the API and the capability to invoke Google APIs, by accessing to "APIs & Services" in Google Cloud Console.

With API Explorer, you can also see the curl command, and javascript code for performing the request to endpoints in APIs.

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