Google Cloud Management Options

This chapter describes how to utilize the various management options available so that you can administer your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services in an easier way. In the previous chapters, we touched on the command-line tools that are available so that we can manage Google services. We can now go into more detail about these tools, which includes gcloud, cbt, bq, and gsutil.

Exam tips: It's vital that you know about the most efficient command-line tool for managing a particular service. Review and understand each command-line tool in the chapter and ensure that you can quickly map this to a GCP service. For example, if we are asked to create a new storage bucket using a command-line tool, we should know instantly that we need to use gsutil.

We also recommend that you take a deeper look at the gsutil command lines and understand them so...