Tools for Cloud Platform
The Cloud SDK is a set of tools for Cloud Platform. It contains gcloud, gsutil, and bq, which you can use to access Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google BigQuery, and other products and services from the command-line. You can run these tools interactively or in your automated scripts
Manage Virtual Machine
gcloud makes it easy to manage your fleet of virtual machines on Compute Engine ‐ everything from creating, starting and managing VM instances to rolling your own VM images. You can also use gcloud to make SSH connections to your instances
Run Local Service Emulators
Cloud SDK emulators for Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Datastore allow you to simulate these services in your environment for local development, testing and validation. You start and manage service emulators using the gcloud tool
System requirements
Cloud SDK runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and requires Python 2.7.x. Some tools bundled with Cloud SDK have additional requirements. For example, Java tools for Google App Engine development require Java 1.7 or later
Download
To install the latest release of Cloud SDK from a versioned archive:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads
Extract the file to any location on your file system
and go to the location where you have extract the file.
Optional. Run the install script to add Cloud SDK tools to your path, enable command-completion in your bashshell (Linux and Mac OS only) and enable usage reporting.
On Linux or Mac OS X:./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
On Windows:.\google-cloud-sdk\install.bat
It take Few Minutes.
once done you will see this kind of screen
Once The setup complete you need to hit the command
#gcloud init
Then click on the link to verify your account.
now you can use your local shell to connect to the google cloud instances and manage them.
There is a video to demonstrate how to set up google cloud sdk
