GCP Cloud SDK installation and setup

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GCP Cloud SDK installation and setup

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Test Environment –

Fedora 32 installed
Active GCP account

What is Cloud SDK –

Cloud SDK is set of command line tools that can be used to manage the Google cloud platform resources and applications hosted on this platform. Cloud SDK is almost similar to Google cloud console which is also used to manage and monitor the resources, but it has much more flexibility and comes with a set of Programming language specific command line libraries which can be installed and used from within the languagee specific programs to interact with the resources.

Here in this article we will see how we can install the Cloud SDK tool and initialize our shell environment. Also we will see how we can use how we can install the Programming language specific Client tools from this shell.

Procedure –

Step1: Setup the Cloud SDK repository

Here in this step we are going to configure the yum repository with the Cloud SDK repository from which we will be able to install the Cloud SDK tool.

Configure the Cloud SDK repository 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo

[google-cloud-sdk]

name=Google Cloud SDK baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el7-x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 repo_gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg

Step2: Install Google Cloud SDK

Once the repostiory is configured we can install the Cloud SDK tool as shown below and validate its version.

Install Cloud SDK and validate its version 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ sudo dnf install google-cloud-sdk

[admin@fed32 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep google-cloud-sdk
google-cloud-sdk-321.0.0-1.x86_64

[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud --version
Google Cloud SDK 321.0.0
alpha 2020.12.11
beta 2020.12.11
bq 2.0.64
core 2020.12.11
gsutil 4.57

Step3: Initialize the Google Cloud SDK

Once the Cloud SDK tool is installed we need to initialize it with the project, zone, region and authentication credentials that will be used to manage the resources.

Initialize Cloud SDK 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud init
...
Your Google Cloud SDK is configured and ready to use!

* Commands that require authentication will use sxxx@gmail.com by default
* Commands will reference project `gcplearning-299822` by default
* Compute Engine commands will use region `asia-south1` by default
* Compute Engine commands will use zone `asia-south1-a` by default

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

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

Step4: Validate the initial configuration

We can validate the basic information about our default configuration initialized as shown below

List Configuration and Authentication details 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud auth list
    Credentialed Accounts
ACTIVE  ACCOUNT
*       sxxx@gmail.com

To set the active account, run:
    $ gcloud config set account `ACCOUNT`
[admin@fed32 ~]$ 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud config list

[compute]

region = asia-south1 zone = asia-south1-a

[core]

account = sxxx@gmail.com disable_usage_reporting = True project = gcplearning-299822 Your active configuration is: [default]

Complete information about the installation paths and libraries that are installed is available with the below command

Detailed configuration information 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud info

Step5: List gcloud compoents and their Status

List the available gcloud components and their status 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud components list

Your current Cloud SDK version is: 321.0.0
The latest available version is: 321.0.0

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                 Components                                                 │
├───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────┤
│     Status    │                         Name                         │            ID            │   Size   │
├───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ Not Installed │ App Engine Go Extensions                             │ app-engine-go            │  4.9 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Appctl                                               │ appctl                   │ 21.0 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Bigtable Command Line Tool                     │ cbt                      │  7.7 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Bigtable Emulator                              │ bigtable                 │  6.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Datalab Command Line Tool                      │ datalab                  │   1 MiB │
...
│ Not Installed │ App Engine Go Extensions                             │ app-engine-go            │  4.9 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Java Extensions                           │ app-engine-java          │ 59.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Python Extensions                         │ app-engine-python        │  6.1 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Python Extensions (Extra Libraries)       │ app-engine-python-extras │ 27.1 MiB │

Step6: Install app-engine-python Cloud Component

Install Python component 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud components install app-engine-python
ERROR: (gcloud.components.install) 
You cannot perform this action because the Cloud SDK component manager 
is disabled for this installation. You can run the following command 
to achieve the same result for this installation: 

sudo yum install google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python

As per the above error message lets try to install the component using the package manager as Cloud SDK component manager is disabled if we install the SDK using the package repository.

Install Python component using the dnf or yum tool 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ sudo yum install google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python

Step7: Validate the app-engine-python Cloud Component installation

Validate the Installed Python Component status 
[admin@fed32 ~]$ gcloud components list | grep -i "app-engine"

Your current Cloud SDK version is: 321.0.0
The latest available version is: 321.0.0

│ Not Installed │ App Engine Go Extensions                             │ app-engine-go            │  4.9 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Java Extensions                           │ app-engine-java          │ 59.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Python Extensions (Extra Libraries)       │ app-engine-python-extras │ 27.1 MiB │
│ Installed     │ gcloud app Python Extensions                         │ app-engine-python        │  6.1 MiB │

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