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gcloud command line tool allow us managing a list of Google Cloud projects, one of which is considered as the default project, so all the operations we perform via gcloud are performed on it. Available projects To check what projects are available via gcloud , run the command: $ gcloud projects list This command drops an output similar to this example: PROJECT_ID NAME PROJECT_NUMBER fooOrg-pr01 Project Bar 239785793387 fooOrg-pr02 Project Zaz 348328582382 ... You can check the available options in the GCloud SDK reference . Current default project As you can see, that output doesn't set what is the default project. To get it run this command: $ gcloud config get-value project The command output will show the ID of the default project. Following the above example, the output of the command could be fooOrg-pr01 to state that the default project is our Project Bar. Changing the current default project To change the default project, run this comman...

Tired of that slow web interface that Google Cloud Console offers to those lazy programmers out there? Then gcloud comes to your help. Among other miriad of functions, gcloud allows calling GC functions from the command line of your computer. For instance, this command calls the helloWorld function, deployed on the cloud region "europe-west1": gcloud functions call helloWorld --region="europe-west1" Calling  gcloud functions list  is the way to get all the available GC functions, together with their state, trigger and cloud region. Functions input data Most of the times your functions will require some data input to work. Depending on the function triggering method, data can arrive in different ways (in the body of an HTTP request, in a PubSub message...), but they way of sending that data from the gcloud command is always the same: gcloud functions call helloWorld \ --region "europe-west1...