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Properties are settings that govern the behavior of the gcloud CLI.
You can use properties to define a per-product or per-service setting such as the account used by the gcloud CLI for authorization, the default region to use when working with Compute Engine resources, or the option to turn off automatic gcloud CLI component update checks. Properties can also be used to define gcloud CLI preferences like verbosity level and prompt configuration for gcloud CLI commands.
Properties and flagsThe gcloud CLI supports some global flags and command flags that have the same effect as gcloud CLI properties. For example, the gcloud CLI supports both the --project flag and project property. Properties allow you to maintain the same settings across command executions while flags affect command behavior on a per-invocation basis. Note that flags override properties when both are set.
A configuration is a named set of gcloud CLI properties. The gcloud CLI uses a configuration named default as the initial active configuration. The default configuration is suitable for most use cases. However, you can also create additional configurations and switch between them as required.
To list the properties in the active configuration, run gcloud config list:
gcloud config list
The gcloud CLI returns the list of properties:
[compute] region = us-east1 zone = us-east1-d [core] account = user@google.com disable_usage_reporting = False project = example-project [metrics] command_name = gcloud.config.listSetting properties
To set a property in the active configuration, run gcloud config set. The following example sets the project property, where PROJECT_ID is the unique ID for your project.
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
To set properties that are not in the core properties section, you must specify the section followed by a forward slash before the property name. The following example sets the zone name to us-east1-b.
gcloud config set compute/zone us-east1-b
You can also set properties using environment variables. Each property has a corresponding environment variable that can be used to set it. The name of the environment variable follows the CLOUDSDK_SECTION_NAME_PROPERTY_NAME pattern. For example, you can set the core/project and compute/zone properties as follows:
CLOUDSDK_CORE_PROJECT=PROJECT_NAME
CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE=ZONE_NAME
gcloud config set. Unsetting properties
To unset a property in the active configuration, use gcloud config unset:
gcloud config unset disable_usage_reporting
The list of all properties can be found by running gcloud topic configurations or gcloud config set --help and looking for the Available Properties section.
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