In the Google Cloud CLI, configurations enable you to set properties that affect the behavior of the active gcloud session. A default configuration is created when you initialize Google Cloud CLI and you can create other named configurations.
A configuration can include default values for specific properties so that you do not need to specify them in your commands.
For more information about using configurations, see the gcloud config documentation.
Setting defaults
You can set a default project, repository, and repository location in the Google Cloud CLI active configuration so that you don't need to include them in commands where those values are required.
If you do specify a value for a project, repository, or repository location, that value overrides the configured default. You can do this with the --repository or --location flag in your command.
If you're using repository modes other than standard mode, or frequently using repositories in different locations, setting default values might not be helpful.
Setting a default project
To set default project for all gcloud commands, run the command:
gcloud config set project PROJECT Replace PROJECT with the ID of the project or fully qualified identifier for the project.
To override the default, use the --project flag in your command. For example
gcloud artifacts packages list --project=my-project Setting a default repository
To set a default repository, run the command:
gcloud config set artifacts/repository REPOSITORY Replace REPOSITORY with the name of the repository, or fully qualified identifier for the repository.
To override the default, use the --repository flag in your command. For example
gcloud artifacts packages list --repository=my-repo Setting a default location
To set a default repository location, run the command:
gcloud config set artifacts/location LOCATION Replace LOCATION with the regional or multi-regional location of the repository.
To view a list of supported locations, run the command:
gcloud artifacts locations list To override the default, use the --location flag in your command. For example
gcloud artifacts packages list --repository=my-repo --location=us-central1 Removing default values
When you remove a default value for a configuration property, you must specify it in gcloud commands that require the property.
To unset the default project run the following command:
gcloud config unset project To unset the default repository, run the following command:
gcloud config unset artifacts/repository To unset the default location, run the following command:
gcloud config unset artifacts/location