Using the gcloud utility

The gcloud utility is used to interact with the rest of the services on the Google Cloud Platform, other than BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage. The commands in the gcloud utility are grouped for each service. The following are the service groups for some of the services on the Google Cloud Platform:

To view the list of commands available in each service group, run the help command shown as follows. The following command will show the list of command groups available for the Cloud SQL service:

gcloud help sql

To see the list of commands for each group, type the command shown as follows. The following command will show the list of commands available under the backups group in the Cloud SQL:

gcloud help sql backups

To see the options in a command, type the command shown as follows. The following code will show the details about the list command in the Cloud SQL service, which is used to get a list of backups available for the Cloud SQL instance:

gcloud help sql backups list