The Google Cloud CLI is a set of tools to create and manage Google Cloud resources. You can use these tools to perform many common platform tasks from the command line or through scripts and other automation.
For example, you can use the gcloud CLI to create and manage the following:
Compute Engine virtual machine instances and other resources
Cloud SQL instances
Google Kubernetes Engine clusters
Dataproc clusters and jobs
Cloud DNS managed zones and record sets
Cloud Deployment Manager deployments
You can also use the gcloud CLI to deploy App Engine applications, manage authentication, customize local configuration, and perform other tasks.
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