Install the Google Cloud CLI

This quickstart describes the recommended method to install and initialize the Google Cloud CLI. After initialization, run a few core gcloud CLI commands to view information about your installation and verify it was successful.

To follow step-by-step guidance for this task directly in the Google Cloud console, click Guide me:

Guide me

Before you begin

Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

Roles required to select or create a project

Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Go to project selector

Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

Roles required to select or create a project

Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Go to project selector

Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Install gcloud CLI version 581.0.0

Linux

Confirm that you have a supported version of Python. The Google Cloud CLI requires Python 3.10 to 3.14. The x86_64 Linux package includes a bundled Python interpreter that will be preferred by default. For information on how to choose and configure your Python interpreter, see the gcloud topic startup documentation.

Download one of the following:

Note: To determine your Linux platform, run uname -a at the command line.

Platform	Package name	Size	SHA256 Checksum
Linux 64-bit (x86_64)	google-cloud-cli-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	96.6 MB	42e4b1a6a687ee96ae3919f2917d854f1d4b97f0c62581b6568728f83fd378a7
Linux 64-bit (Arm)	google-cloud-cli-linux-arm.tar.gz	62.1 MB	caed087877643852ddbe9f7eedba5057431006971a9f0970cffc247f86eef09c
Linux 32-bit (x86)	google-cloud-cli-linux-x86.tar.gz	62.1 MB	a95e21de373341cce14edb3d29913ef99fad6a3fa5179d989ff13114aaab1494

To download the Linux archive file, run the following command:

curl -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-cli-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Refer to the table above and replace google-cloud-cli-linux-x86_64.tar.gz with the *.tar.gz package name that applies to your configuration.

To extract the contents of the file to your file system, run the following command:
```
tar -xf google-cloud-cli-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
```
To replace an existing installation, delete the existing google-cloud-sdk directory and then extract the archive to the same location.
Run the installation script from the root of the folder you extracted:
```
./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
```
The script prompts you to perform the following setup actions. To accept, answer Y when prompted.
- Add the gcloud CLI to your PATH.
- Enable command completion.
- Opt in to send anonymous usage statistics to help improve the gcloud CLI.
You can also perform the installation non-interactively by providing flags. To view available flags, run:
```
./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh --help
```
Optional: If you updated your PATH in the previous step, open a new terminal so that the changes take effect.

Debian/Ubuntu

Package contents

The gcloud CLI is available in package format for installation on Debian and Ubuntu systems. This package contains the gcloud, gcloud alpha, gcloud beta, gsutil, and bq command-line tools only. It doesn't include kubectl or the App Engine extensions required to deploy an application using gcloud commands. If you want these components, you must install them separately.

Before you begin

Before you install the gcloud CLI, make sure that your operating system meets the following requirements:

It is an Ubuntu release that hasn't reached end-of-life or a Debian stable release that hasn't reached end-of-life.
It has recently updated its packages. To do this now, run the following command:
```
sudo apt-get update
```
It has ca-certificates, gnupg, and curl installed. To install these packages, run the following command:
```
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates gnupg curl
```

Installation

Import the Google Cloud public key.
- For newer distributions (Debian 9+ or Ubuntu 18.04+) run the following command:
```
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg
```
- For older distributions, run the following command:
```
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -
```
- If your distribution's apt-key command doesn't support the --keyring argument, run the following command:
```
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
```
- If you can't get latest updates due to an expired key, obtain the latest apt-get.gpg key file.
Add the gcloud CLI distribution URI as a package source.
- For newer distributions (Debian 9+ or Ubuntu 18.04+), run the following command:
```
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
```
- For older distributions that don't support the signed-by option, run the following command:
```
echo "deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
```
Note: Make sure you don't have duplicate entries for the cloud-sdk repo in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list.

Update and install the gcloud CLI:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-cli

Note: If installing in resource-constrained virtual machines, container images, or automated CI/CD runners, you can export the environment variable CLOUDSDK_SKIP_PY_COMPILATION=1 during installation to skip host-side Python compilation. This drops package installation time from minutes down to seconds:

sudo CLOUDSDK_SKIP_PY_COMPILATION=1 apt-get install google-cloud-cli

Setting this variable skips byte-compilation on installation, trading some package setup speed for minor interactive command execution overhead.

For additional apt-get options, such as disabling prompts or dry runs, refer to the apt-get man pages.

Docker Tip: If installing the gcloud CLI inside a Docker image, use a single RUN step instead:

RUN echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list && curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg && apt-get update -y && apt-get install google-cloud-cli -y

For older base images that do not support the gpg --dearmor command:

RUN echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list && curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg  add - && apt-get update -y && apt-get install google-cloud-cli -y

Optional: Install any of the following additional components:
- google-cloud-cli-anthos-auth
- google-cloud-cli-app-engine-go
- google-cloud-cli-app-engine-grpc
- google-cloud-cli-app-engine-java
- google-cloud-cli-app-engine-python
- google-cloud-cli-app-engine-python-extras
- google-cloud-cli-bigtable-emulator
- google-cloud-cli-cbt
- google-cloud-cli-cloud-build-local
- google-cloud-cli-cloud-run-proxy
- google-cloud-cli-config-connector
- google-cloud-cli-datastore-emulator
- google-cloud-cli-firestore-emulator
- google-cloud-cli-gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
- google-cloud-cli-kpt
- google-cloud-cli-kubectl-oidc
- google-cloud-cli-local-extract
- google-cloud-cli-minikube
- google-cloud-cli-nomos
- google-cloud-cli-pubsub-emulator
- google-cloud-cli-skaffold
- google-cloud-cli-spanner-emulator
- google-cloud-cli-terraform-tools
- google-cloud-cli-tests
- kubectl
For example, the google-cloud-cli-app-engine-java component can be installed as follows:
```
sudo apt-get install google-cloud-cli-app-engine-java
```

Downgrade gcloud CLI versions

To revert to a specific version of the gcloud CLI, where VERSION is of the form 123.0.0, run the following command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-cli=123.0.0-0

The ten most recent releases are always available in the repo. For releases prior to 371.0.0, the package name is google-cloud-sdk.

Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS

Package contents

The gcloud CLI is available in package format for installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9, and 10; Fedora 41 and 42; and CentOS 7 and 8 systems. This package contains the gcloud, gcloud alpha, gcloud beta, gsutil, and bq commands only. It doesn't include kubectl or the App Engine extensions required to deploy an application using gcloud commands, which can be installed separately as described later in this section.

Installation

Update DNF with gcloud CLI repository information.

The following sample command is for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, or 9-compatible installations, but make sure that you update the settings as needed for your configuration:

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo << EOM
[google-cloud-cli]
name=Google Cloud CLI
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el9-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOM

For RHEL 10-compatible installations, use the following command with the updated gpgkey:

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo << EOM
[google-cloud-cli]
name=Google Cloud CLI
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el10-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key-v10.gpg
EOM

For ARM64 (aarch64) installations, use https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el9-aarch64 (RHEL 7, 8, or 9-compatible) or https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el10-aarch64 (RHEL 10-compatible) as the baseurl value.

Install libxcrypt-compat.x86_64.

sudo dnf install libxcrypt-compat.x86_64

Install the gcloud CLI:
```
sudo dnf install google-cloud-cli
```
Note: If installing in resource-constrained virtual machines, container images, or automated CI/CD runners, you can export the environment variable CLOUDSDK_SKIP_PY_COMPILATION=1 during installation to skip host-side Python compilation. This drops package installation time from minutes down to seconds: