Gcloud-lite lightweight Google Cloud Platform CLI distro

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  • gsutil

    A command line tool for interacting with cloud storage services.

  • Thanks for sharing. The gcloud cli archives are 1200-2000 MB when installed. This ends up having a huge impact on your bill and launch times.

    gcloud cli is a hard dependency for doing work in gcp. It’s used for running db queries, managing instances, managing files.

    This is one example of many where the cli install takes 10 minutes to un-archive and setup before use on a fresh instance

    https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil/issues/1732

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