Introducing Cloud Shell
Cloud Shell (https://cloud.google.com/shell) is an online operations environment that you can access anywhere using a web browser and is offered at no added cost to Google Cloud customers. In other words, a Linux VM with persistent storage is provided for free to developers and administrators working on Google Cloud and its command-line console can be accessed from a web browser.
Cloud Shell is an online Linux terminal with a few preloaded utilities. This terminal, together with Cloud Shell Editor, can be used to write, deploy, run, and troubleshoot our applications on Google Cloud.
These are some of the key features of Cloud Shell that you should be aware of:
- Pre-installed and up-to-date tools: Cloud Shell includes many useful tools that you will often use, such as the gcloud command-line administration tool (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/) and many other tools to help you manage software such as Kubernetes, Docker, Skaffold, minikube, MySQL...