Installing the Google Cloud CLI

Procedure

Issue the following command to download gcloud CLI.

wget https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-sdk-289.0.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

Extract the file.

tar xvf google-cloud-sdk-289.0.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

Run the installation.

./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh

When prompted to help improve the Google Cloud SDK, enter Y for yes.

The expected output is similar to:

Your current Cloud SDK version is: 289.0.0
The latest available version is: 363.0.0

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                   Components                                                  │
├──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────┤
│      Status      │                         Name                         │            ID            │   Size   │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ Update Available │ BigQuery Command Line Tool                           │ bq                       │  < 1 MiB │
│ Update Available │ Cloud SDK Core Libraries                             │ core                     │ 20.9 MiB │
│ Update Available │ Cloud Storage Command Line Tool                      │ gsutil                   │  8.1 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ App Engine Go Extensions                             │ app-engine-go            │  4.8 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Appctl                                               │ appctl                   │ 18.5 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Cloud Bigtable Command Line Tool                     │ cbt                      │  7.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Cloud Bigtable Emulator                              │ bigtable                 │  6.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Cloud Datalab Command Line Tool                      │ datalab                  │  < 1 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Cloud Datastore Emulator                             │ cloud-datastore-emulator │ 18.4 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Cloud Firestore Emulator                             │ cloud-firestore-emulator │ 40.4 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Cloud Pub/Sub Emulator                               │ pubsub-emulator          │ 60.7 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Cloud SQL Proxy                                      │ cloud_sql_proxy          │  7.4 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Emulator Reverse Proxy                               │ emulator-reverse-proxy   │ 14.5 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Google Cloud Build Local Builder                     │ cloud-build-local        │  6.2 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Google Container Registry's Docker credential helper │ docker-credential-gcr    │  2.2 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Kustomize                                            │ kustomize                │  7.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Minikube                                             │ minikube                 │ 26.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Nomos CLI                                            │ nomos                    │ 24.4 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ On-Demand Scanning API extraction helper             │ local-extract            │ 12.5 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ Skaffold                                             │ skaffold                 │ 20.1 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ anthos-auth                                          │ anthos-auth              │ 18.0 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ config-connector                                     │ config-connector         │ 46.9 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ gcloud Alpha Commands                                │ alpha                    │  < 1 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ gcloud Beta Commands                                 │ beta                     │  < 1 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ gcloud app Java Extensions                           │ app-engine-java          │ 52.7 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ gcloud app PHP Extensions                            │ app-engine-php           │ 21.9 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ gcloud app Python Extensions                         │ app-engine-python        │  7.8 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ gcloud app Python Extensions (Extra Libraries)       │ app-engine-python-extras │ 26.4 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ kpt                                                  │ kpt                      │ 12.8 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ kubectl                                              │ kubectl                  │  < 1 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ kubectl-oidc                                         │ kubectl-oidc             │ 18.0 MiB │
│ Not Installed    │ pkg                                                  │ pkg                      │          │
└──────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────┘

To install or remove components at the current SDK version (289.0.0), run the following command:
gcloud components install COMPONENT_ID
Or the following command:
gcloud components remove COMPONENT_ID

When prompted with the following question:

Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable shell command 
completion?
Do you want to continue (Y/n)?

Enter Y for yes.

The Google Cloud SDK installer prompts you to update an rc file to bring the Google Cloud CLI to your environment:

Enter a path to an rc file to update, or leave blank to use 
[/Users/myUsername/.zshrc]: 
Backing up [/Users/myUsername/.zshrc] to [/Users/myUsername/.zshrc.backup].

Issue the following command:
gcloud --version
The expected output is similar to:
```
Google Cloud SDK 289.0.0
bq 2.0.56
core 2020.04.10
gsutil 4.49
```
To begin the configuration of gcloud, enter the following command:
gcloud init

You are presented with the following output and then walked through the configuration:

Welcome! This command will take you through the configuration of gcloud.

Settings from your current configuration [default] are:
core:
  account: MyUsername@ibm.com
  disable_usage_reporting: 'False'

When prompted with the following choice:

Pick configuration to use:
 [1] Re-initialize this configuration [default] with new settings 
 [2] Create a new configuration

Enter 2 to create a new configuration.

When prompted with the following input:

Enter configuration name. Names start with a lowercase letter and 
contain only lowercase letters a-z, digits 0-9, and hyphens '-':

Enter a configuration name. This example uses gcpviswa2 as the configuration name. The expected output is similar to:
Your current configuration has been set to: [gcpviswa2]

By default, the gcloud init command includes diagnostics and generates this output:

Network diagnostic detects and fixes local network connection issues.
Checking network connection...done.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Reachability Check passed.
Network diagnostic passed (1/1 checks passed).

In the future, you can skip diagnostics by issuing gcloud init --skip-diagnostics.

When prompted with the following tchoice:

Choose the account you would like to use to perform operations for 
this configuration:
 [1] MyUsername@ibm.com
 [2] Log in with a new account
Please enter your numeric choice:

Enter 1 to use the current account.

The expected output is similar to:

You are logged in as: [MyUsername@ibm.com].

When prompted with the following choice:
```
Pick cloud project to use: 
 [1] aesthetic-frame-155821
 [2] Create a new project
Please enter numeric choice or text value (must exactly match list 
item):
```
Enter 1 to use the current cloud project.

The expected output is similar to: Your current project has been set to: [aesthetic-frame-155821].
When prompted with the following question:
Do you want to configure a default Compute Region and Zone? (Y/n)?
Enter y to configure a default region and zone.

When prompted with the following question:

Which Google Compute Engine zone would you like to use as project 
default?
If you do not specify a zone via a command line flag while working 
with Compute Engine resources, the default is assumed.
 [1] us-east1-b
 [2] us-east1-c
 [3] us-east1-d
 [4] us-east4-c
 [5] us-east4-b
 [6] us-east4-a
 [7] us-central1-c
 [8] us-central1-a
 [9] us-central1-f
 [10] us-central1-b
 [11] us-west1-b
 [12] us-west1-c
 [13] us-west1-a
 [14] europe-west4-a
 [15] europe-west4-b
 [16] europe-west4-c
 [17] europe-west1-b
 [18] europe-west1-d
 [19] europe-west1-c
 [20] europe-west3-c
 [21] europe-west3-a
 [22] europe-west3-b
 [23] europe-west2-c
 [24] europe-west2-b
 [25] europe-west2-a
 [26] asia-east1-b
 [27] asia-east1-a
 [28] asia-east1-c
 [29] asia-southeast1-b
 [30] asia-southeast1-a
 [31] asia-southeast1-c
 [32] asia-northeast1-b
 [33] asia-northeast1-c
 [34] asia-northeast1-a
 [35] asia-south1-c
 [36] asia-south1-b
 [37] asia-south1-a
 [38] australia-southeast1-b
 [39] australia-southeast1-c
 [40] australia-southeast1-a
 [41] southamerica-east1-b
 [42] southamerica-east1-c
 [43] southamerica-east1-a
 [44] asia-east2-a
 [45] asia-east2-b
 [46] asia-east2-c
 [47] asia-northeast2-a
 [48] asia-northeast2-b
 [49] asia-northeast2-c
 [50] asia-northeast3-a
Did not print [36] options.
Too many options [86]. Enter "list" at prompt to print choices fully.
Please enter numeric choice or text value (must exactly match list 
item):

Enter the number that corresponds to the region that you want to set. For this example, enter 13 for us-west1-a.

The expected output is similar to:

Your project default Compute Engine zone has been set to [us-west1-a].
You can change it by running [gcloud config set compute/zone NAME].

Your project default Compute Engine region has been set to [us-west1].
You can change it by running [gcloud config set compute/region NAME].

The final expected output is similar to:

Created a default  boto configuration file at [/Users/myUsername/.boto]. See this file and
[https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/config] for more
information about configuring Google Cloud Storage.
Your Google Cloud SDK is configured and ready to use!

* Commands that require authentication will use MyUsername@ibm.com by default
* Commands will reference project `aesthetic-frame-155821` by default
* Compute Engine commands will use region `us-west1` by default
* Compute Engine commands will use zone `us-west1-a` by default

Run `gcloud help config` to learn how to change individual settings

This gcloud configuration is called [gcpviswa2]. You can create additional configurations if you work with multiple accounts and/or projects.
Run `gcloud topic configurations` to learn more.

Some things to try next:

* Run `gcloud --help` to see the Cloud Platform services you can interact with. And run `gcloud help COMMAND` to get help on any gcloud command.
* Run `gcloud topic --help` to learn about advanced features of the SDK like arg files and output formatting