Chapter 16: 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 with ease. In the previous chapters, we touched on the command-line tools that are available so that we can manage Google services. In this chapter, we will look at these tools in more detail, which include gcloud, cbt, bq, and gsutil.

Exam Tip

You must know about the most efficient command-line tool for managing a particular service. Review and understand each command-line tool in this chapter and ensure that you can quickly map them 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 that you can set life cycle policies.

As we cover each management option in this chapter, you can...