Guide to Install gcloud Command-Line Tool & Create/Terminate VM

Installation of gcloud Command-Line Tool

Let me guide how can we install gcloud Command-Line Tool on Windows.

• Download GCP CLI or SDK using URL: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install

• Double click to install SDK

  

• Click on Agree

  

• and click on next and Install

  

• Installation will start

  

• Finish the installer

  

  Configure the CLI with your current GCP account

• Once you finish the CLI installation, one terminal window will pop-up

  

• Once you write "Y" for continue to log in, you will be redirected to your browser for authentication.

• Choose your Google email id which is associate your GCP account.

  

• Click on continue

  

• Click on Allow

  

• Now, your GCP authentication will be completed and you will be redirected to the terminal. It will show your all projects which are associated with your GCP account.

  

• Select default region and zone, write "y"

  

• Still, it will ask with you to put the region. So, put the correct number of your region. In my case put 8 for us-central1-a region.

  

• Now, your CLI is configured and ready to use

  

• To check the CLI version, hit the command: gcloud version

  

  Create and Terminate the VM using gloud CLI

• To create the VM using CLI, follow the command:

  gcloud compute instances create karan-gcp-labs --zone us-central1-a --machine-type e2-micro --boot-disk-size 10

  

• You can verify on console as:

  

• To terminate the instance using CLI:

  gcloud compute instances delete karan-gcp-labs