This chapter covered the Google Cloud SDK and the utilities that come with it. The samples in this chapter provided an overview of how to interact with Google Cloud Services and how to manage your resources on Google Cloud Platform using the Google Cloud SDK. Use the utilities to write your batch programs that you run from your on-premises infrastructure.

The next chapter covers data types in Google BigQuery, how to use them when creating custom tables, and how to import and export the data using the bq utility that was covered in this chapter.