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Using the Cloud Shell

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Using the Cloud Shell

- [Instructor] A lot of commands are more appropriately run from the command line instead of a graphical user interface. That's what Google Cloud Shell is for. It's a command line interface that is readily accessible from a web browser. To use Cloud Shell, let's go to the upper right of the Google Cloud Console and click this Activate Cloud Shell button. While we are waiting for it to launch, let's talk about the specs of the Cloud Shell. It launches a Linux terminal on a virtual machine. This virtual machine has about five gigabytes of storage and has 1.7 gigabytes of Ram and 0.5 virtual CPU. The Cloud Shell comes free with your GCP account. Also, these specs can be boosted for a limited time when necessary. Now that it's launched, you can see that it's really a Linux terminal, but the most important part is that it comes pre-configured. Let's run gcloud config list. It comes pre-configured with your project credentials…

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