Useful GCP CLI Commands

Install GCP CLI

https://docs.cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install-sdk

curl -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-cli-darwin-arm.tar.gz
tar -xf google-cloud-cli-darwin-arm.tar.gz
./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh

Configure GCP CLI

gcloud init

Login to GCP

gcloud auth application-default login

Connect to VM Instance

gcloud compute ssh --project={project id} --zone={zone} {instance name}
gcloud compute ssh --zone "us-central1-a" "dig-instance-20250327-075510-large3-aiteam" --project "time-data-241616"

Get gcloud Configuration Lists

gcloud config configurations list

Activate a Particular Configuration

gcloud config configurations activate [CONFIG_NAME]

Create a New Configuration

gcloud config configurations create [NEW_CONFIG_NAME]

Set Configuration Properties

gcloud config set project [PROJECT_ID]
gcloud config set compute/region [REGION]
gcloud config set compute/zone [ZONE]
gcloud config set account <email>

Retrieve GCP Cloud Secrets

gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=[SECRET NAME]

Copy a File from GCS to Local

gsutil cp gs://surrounding-stories-kg-processing-artifacts/development/seeding_run/v1.3/april_run_init_200k_pr278/entity_cache/graph_v1.3.pkl .

Copy a File from Local to GCS

gsutil cp batched_processing/dev_data_20250320_ap_stat_filtered.parquet "gs://surrounding-stories-kg-processing-artifacts/test_inputs/200kProcessing"

Copy a Local File to Compute Instance

gcloud compute scp ~/Downloads/trial.py shamik@comfyvm:~/comfy --zone=us-central1-a

Docker Pull from Google Artifacts

docker pull --platform linux/amd64 us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/realclearcrime/sample-repo/asknews:latest

Print Auth Token

gcloud auth print-identity-token | pbcopy

Create a New Bucket with 1 Day Retention Period

gsutil mb -c standard -l us-central1 --retention 1d gs://dataflow-temp

List All Active Dataflow Jobs

gcloud dataflow jobs list --status active

List All Active Dataflow Jobs in JSON Format

gcloud dataflow jobs list --status active --format=json

List All Active Dataflow Jobs, Extract ID

gcloud dataflow jobs list --region us-central1 --status active --format="value(id)"

List All Active Dataflow Jobs, Extract Job ID and Cancel

gcloud dataflow jobs list --region us-central1 --status active --format="value(id)" | xargs gcloud dataflow jobs cancel --region us-central1

Configure Docker to Use gcloud as Credential Helper for Artifact Registry

gcloud auth configure-docker us-central1-docker.pkg.dev
gcloud auth configure-docker \
    us-docker.pkg.dev

Verify Authentication

gcloud auth list

Check All Compute Instances

gcloud compute instances list

Stop Instance

gcloud compute instances stop redis-jump-host --zone=us-east1-b

Start Instance

gcloud compute instances start redis-jump-host --zone=us-east1-b

Connect to the Instance

gcloud compute ssh redis-jump-host --zone=us-east1-b -- -N -L 6379:10.70.96.4:6379

Create Instance Without Public IP

gcloud compute instances create redis-jump-host \
    --project={project-name} \
    --zone=us-east1-b \
    --machine-type=e2-micro \
    --no-address \
    --maintenance-policy=TERMINATE \
    --provisioning-model=SPOT \
    --tags=redis-jump-host

Create Instance with Public IP

gcloud compute instances create redis-jump-host \
    --project={project-name} \
    --zone=us-east1-b \
    --machine-type=e2-micro \
    --maintenance-policy=TERMINATE \
    --provisioning-model=SPOT \
    --tags=redis-jump-host

Run Claude Code with GCP

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/google-vertex-ai

export CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1
export CLOUD_ML_REGION=global
export ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID={project-id}