Google cloud platform gcloud command cheatsheet

Download and install gcloud command line tool
Unzip the file and run these inside the unzipped package directory.

.install.sh
.install.sh init
source ~/.bash_profile

ssh into a compute engine server

gcloud compute ssh user@your-server-name-1-vm

Download a folder from the server through scp

gcloud compute scp --recurse user@your-server-name-1-vm:/path/to/the/directory/that/you/want/to/download/to/your/local/machine/ ./

Logout gcloud from the command line window

gcloud auth revoke --all

Login to gcloud from the command line window, it will fire up the browser and ask you to login.

gcloud auth login