Question

You have just installed the Google Cloud CLI on a new workstation and authenticated with your corporate account. You will be running dozens of gcloud commands against a project named 'analytics-prod-421' over the next few hours, and you do not want to append the --project flag to every command. What is the most efficient way to make all subsequent gcloud commands target this project by default?

Accepted Answer

Run 'gcloud config set project analytics-prod-421' to set the project in the active configuration.

Answer

Set an environment variable 'export GOOGLE_PROJECT=analytics-prod-421' before running each command.

Answer

Run 'gcloud projects update analytics-prod-421 --set-default' to mark the project as the CLI default.

Answer

Edit the ~/.config/gcloud/credentials.db file to add the project ID as the default value.