The gcloud utility is used to interact with the rest of the services on the Google Cloud Platform, other than BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage. The commands in the gcloud utility are grouped for each service. The following are the service groups for some of the services on the Google Cloud Platform:
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Service group |
Google Cloud service |
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App |
App Engine standard and flexible environment |
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Compute |
Compute Engine to manage virtual machines |
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Container |
Container Engine to manage containers and clusters |
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Dataflow |
Manage Cloud Dataflow services for ETL and data processing |
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Dataproc |
Manage Cloud Dataproc service which consists of Apache Hadoop, Spark, Pig, and Hive |
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Datastore |
Manage Cloud Datastore service which creates entities on a NoSQL database |
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SQL |
Manage Cloud SQL service which consists of MySQL or PostgreSQL databases... |
