Google gcloud tool cheatsheet

Some gcloud commands I've found useful:

# See config
gcloud config list

# Change default zone
gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-a

# Copy a file, default zone
gcloud compute copy-files some/file.txt cloud-machine-name:~/

# Copy a file, specifying zone for machine
gcloud compute copy-files some/file.txt cloud-machine-name:~/ --zone=us-west1-a

# Forward a port with ssh
gcloud compute ssh client-machine-name -- -L 8080:localhost:8080