Question

You are a cloud engineer who regularly switches between three different Google Cloud projects (dev, staging, and prod), each requiring a different account and default region. You want to switch your active gcloud environment quickly without re-entering the account, project, and region each time. What is the recommended approach using the gcloud CLI?

Accepted Answer

Create a separate named gcloud configuration for each environment with 'gcloud config configurations create' and switch between them using 'gcloud config configurations activate'.

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Run 'gcloud init' each time you need to switch projects and re-select the account and project interactively.

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Install three separate copies of the Cloud SDK in different directories, one per environment, and add each to your PATH.

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Set the CLOUDSDK_CORE_PROJECT environment variable in your shell profile so gcloud always uses the correct project.