Installing the Google Cloud SDK

The Google Cloud SDK comes preinstalled in the Cloud Shell, but there are oftentimes when having the SDK installed locally will provide a better developer experience. To install the Cloud SDK, visit https://cloud.google.com/sdk and follow the instructions for your operating system.

Previously, Google offered separate SDKs for each of the supported languages on App Engine. Google has consolidated many of these SDKs into the core Google Cloud SDK, making them available as components. For example, Java support for App Engine is available as gcloud app Java Extensions, and it can be installed by running gcloud components install app-engine-java. Although some of these standalone SDKs are still available for download, ...

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