Installing Google Cloud SDK on FreeBSD:

This is easily done via package or ports:

pkg install google-cloud-sdk

You may also wish to install the Python modules:

pkg install py39-google-api-python-client
pkg install py39-google-cloud-storage

Installing Google Cloud SDK on Debian/Ubuntu:

Follow the instructions here which are summarized below

Add the Google Cloud SDK as a package source:

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

Install required dependencies:

sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg

Add Google Cloud public key:

curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -

Install Google Cloud SDK:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install google-cloud-sdk

Prepping gCloud:

If a proxy server is required, set gcloud to use it:

gcloud config set proxy/type http
gcloud config set proxy/address 10.10.10.100
gcloud config set proxy/port 3128

Configure gCloud.  This will spit out a URL to paste in to browser, which will return an authorization code

gcloud init

This will generate an encrypted file ~/.gsutil/credstor that will be used for authentication.  To re-authenticate:

gcloud auth login

To switch to a different project:

glcoud config set project <PROJECT_ID>

To switch to a different account:

gcloud config set account

To use a service account:

gcloud auth activate-service-account <ACCOUNT_EMAIL> --key-file=<JSON_KEY_FILE>

CLI commands for working with Google Cloud Storage

List existing buckets

gsutil ls

Create a storage bucket called ‘mybucket’

gsutil mb gs://mybucket

Get information about a bucket called ‘mybucket’

gsutil ls -L -b gs://mybucket/

Upload a single file to the bucket

gsutil cp myfile gs://mybucket/

Upload a directory and its contents to a bucket

gsutil cp -r folder1 gs://code-j5-org/

List contents of a bucket

gsutil ls -r gs://mybucket/

Download a file called ‘testfile.png’ in ‘folder1’

gsutil cp gs://mybucket/folder1/testfile.png

Delete multiple files in a folder

gsutil rm gs://mybucket/folder1/*.png

Delete a folder and all its contents

gsutil rm -r gs://mybucket/folder1

Delete a bucket, if bucket is empty

gsutil rb gs://mybucket

Delete a bucket all all files

gsutil rm -r gs://mybucket

Accessing buckets via HTTPS

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curl -X POST --data-binary @[OBJECT_LOCATION] \
-H "Authorization: Bearer [OAUTH2_TOKEN]" \
-H "Content-Type: [OBJECT_CONTENT_TYPE]" \
"https://storage.googleapis.com/upload/storage/v1/b/[BUCKET_NAME]/o?uploadType=media&name=[OBJECT_NAME]"

To download files, buckets can be accessed at https://<bucket name>.storage.googleapis.com/path   For example,

curl https://mybucket.storage.googleapis.com/folder1/testfile.png

Within GCP for subnets that have “Private google access”, this DNS name will always resolve to 199.36.153.8-11