How do I install and use gcloud? In the context of:
Connecting to Linux Instances
This guide shows you how to connect to Linux instances using common SSH tools on Linux, OSX, and Windows workstations. If you need to connect to a Windows instance, connect using RDP instead.
The easiest way to connect to a Linux instance on Compute Engine is to connect from your browser or connect using the gcloud tool.
How do I install the gcloud
tool?
thufir@doge:~$
thufir@doge:~$ apt-cache search gcloud
golang-github-jacobsa-gcloud-dev - convenience wrapper around google cloud platform APIs
libhtml-tagcloud-perl - module for generating HTML indexes of popular tags
tagcloud - Visualize tagged notes as a cloud
thufir@doge:~$
I see that there's a Java client library for this API, but isn't that overkill for the purpose of connecting to a Linux instance through ssh
?
In order to use gcloud
I have to use a client library? I'm not understanding at all.