You can install the Cloud SDK from the officially provided Debian repository. Cloud SDK is also available as Snap package but don’t includes kubectl. This tutorial describe you to how to install Google Cloud SDK on Debian 10 Buster Linux system.
Prerequisites
You must have sudo privileged account access to your Debian 10 system with console access. Login to your system and launch a terminal. Then execute the following commands to install required packages on your system.
Install Google Cloud SDK on Debian
Google Cloud SDK is available as Debian package in official Apt repositories as well as Snap package on Snapcraft store. In this tutorial, we will install Google Cloud SDK using Debian package. Use the below steps to complete Google Cloud SDK installation on your Debian system. All done. You have successfully install Google Cloud SDK on your Debian 10 Linux system.
Initialize Cloud SDK
After you install Cloud SDK successfully on your system. The next step is to perform initialize the environment with gcloud init command. This authorizes Cloud SDK tools to use your Google account credentials to access Google Cloud and manage it. If you are logged in with remote shell access, use gcloud init –console-only to prevent from launching a browser-based authorization. Follow the onscreen instructions to initialize environment with authorization of your Google account. For more details read official instructions to initialize Cloud SDK environment. You can again run gcloud init in future to update Cloud SDK settings or create a new configuration.
Conclusion
This tutorial helped you with step by step instruction to install Google Cloud SDK on Debian 10 Buster Linux system. Next, you can refer the official documentation of the gcloud command line reference to start working with it.
