Question

You are an engineer who works across three separate Google Cloud environments: a personal sandbox project, your team's staging project (in region us-central1), and a production project (in region europe-west1). Each environment uses a different active account. You want to switch quickly between these environments from your local gcloud CLI without re-running 'gcloud init' or manually resetting the account, project, and region every time. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Create a named gcloud configuration for each environment using 'gcloud config configurations create', set the account/project/region within each, and switch between them with 'gcloud config configurations activate'.

Answer

Maintain three separate installations of the Cloud SDK, one per environment, and add each to your PATH so you can call the correct binary.

Answer

Set the CLOUDSDK_CORE_PROJECT environment variable and re-export it manually each time you switch environments.

Answer

Run 'gcloud config set project' and 'gcloud config set account' before every command to point at the intended environment.