gcloud on CentOS7

for Windows you can install like this https://cloud.google.com/sdk/

in Linux it's much simpler:
cd /home/centos/
curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash

this will install into /home/centos/google-cloud-sdk/

As region, I chose 8 (us-central1)

in the browser, grant access to your account

gcloud init
gcloud docker
gcloud --version
gcloud compute project-info describe

gcloud info

oogle Cloud SDK [186.0.0]

Platform: [Linux, x86_64] ('Linux', 'localhost.localdomain', '3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64', '#1 SMP Thu Jan 25 20:13:58 UTC 2018', 'x86_64', 'x86_64')
Python Version: [2.7.5 (default, Aug  4 2017, 00:39:18)  [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)]]
Python Location: [/usr/bin/python2]
Site Packages: [Disabled]

Installation Root: [/home/centos/google-cloud-sdk]
Installed Components:
  core: [2018.01.22]
  gsutil: [4.28]
  bq: [2.0.28]
System PATH: [/home/centos/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/home/centos/.local/bin:/home/centos/bin:/home/centos/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin/:/home/centos/jdk1.8.0_141/bin/]
Python PATH: [/home/centos/google-cloud-sdk/lib/third_party:/home/centos/google-cloud-sdk/lib:/usr/lib64/python27.zip:/usr/lib64/python2.7/:/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2:/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk:/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old:/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload]
Cloud SDK on PATH: [True]
Kubectl on PATH: [/usr/local/sbin/kubectl]

Installation Properties: [/home/centos/google-cloud-sdk/properties]
User Config Directory: [/home/centos/.config/gcloud]
Active Configuration Name: [default]
Active Configuration Path: [/home/centos/.config/gcloud/configurations/config_default]

Account: [blabla@gmail.com]
Project: [pippo-189911]

Current Properties:
  [core]
    project: [pippo-189911]
    account: [blabla@gmail.com]
    disable_usage_reporting: [False]
  [compute]
    region: [us-central1]
    zone: [us-central1-a]

Logs Directory: [/home/centos/.config/gcloud/logs]
Last Log File: [/home/centos/.config/gcloud/logs/2018.01.28/01.19.39.753977.log]

git: [git version 1.8.3.1]
ssh: [OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017]

gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-a
gcloud config set compute/region us-central1



gcloud compute instances create my-instance


gcloud compute instances list

NAME                                      ZONE           MACHINE_TYPE               PREEMPTIBLE  INTERNAL_IP  EXTERNAL_IP      STATUS
gke-cluster-1-default-pool-6e000aa7-489w  us-central1-a  custom (1 vCPU, 2.00 GiB)               10.128.0.3   104.154.182.52   RUNNING
gke-cluster-1-default-pool-6e000aa7-hrqp  us-central1-a  custom (1 vCPU, 2.00 GiB)               10.128.0.2   104.154.229.102  RUNNING
gke-cluster-1-default-pool-6e000aa7-s43m  us-central1-a  custom (1 vCPU, 2.00 GiB)               10.128.0.4   35.224.155.62    RUNNING

you can add --format yaml or --format json but it's a lot more verbose


gcloud container clusters upgrade cluster-1 --image-type cos --cluster-version 1.8.6-gke.0

Failed to start node upgrade: Desired node version (1.8.6-gke.0) cannot be greater than current master version (1.7.12-gke.0)


gcloud compute instances describe my-instance --zone us-central1-a

gcloud compute ssh my-instance --zone us-central1-a
gcloud compute scp ~/file-1 my-instance:~/remote-destination --zone us-central1-a