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
