The Google Cloud CLI is the command-line toolset for Google Cloud. It includes gcloud for most services, gsutil (the older Cloud Storage tool, now largely replaced by gcloud storage), and bq for BigQuery, and it can install extra components such as kubectl. You can install it on Linux, macOS or Windows, and it comes preinstalled in Cloud Shell.
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