Makes it easier to switch configurations in the gcloud CLI.

Idea and patterns stolen from ahmetb's kubectx. Go check it out, it's awesome!

gcloud init your configurations, then:

gconf                    : list available configs
gconf <NAME>             : activate config
gconf -                  : switch to previously active config
gconf -h,--help          : show this message

Since gconf is written in Bash, you should be able to install it to any POSIX environment that has Bash installed.

• Download the gconf script.
• Either:
  • save it somewhere in your PATH,
  • or save it to a directory, then create symlinks to gconf from somewhere in your PATH, like /usr/local/bin
• Make gconf executable (chmod +x ...)
• Install bash/zsh/fish completion scripts.
  • For zsh:
    The completion scripts have to be in a path that belongs to $fpath. Either link or copy them to an existing folder.
    If using oh-my-zsh you can do as follows:

    git clone https://github.com/uhinze/gconf.git ~/.gconf
    mkdir -p ~/.oh-my-zsh/completions
    chmod -R 755 ~/.oh-my-zsh/completions
    ln -s ~/.gconf/completion/gconf.zsh ~/.oh-my-zsh/completions/_gconf.zsh

    If autocomplete isn't loaded on logout/login, try the following:

    compinit -d $ZSH_COMPDUMP
    

    This refreshes the compinit dumpfile.
  • For bash:

    git clone https://github.com/uhinze/gconf.git ~/.gconf
    COMPDIR=$(pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion)
    ln -sf ~/.gconf/completion/gconf.bash $COMPDIR/gconf

  • For fish:

    mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/completions
    ln -s /opt/gconf/completion/gconf.fish ~/.config/fish/completions/

If you want gconf to present you an interactive menu with fuzzy searching, you just need to install fzf in your PATH.

If you have fzf installed, but want to opt out of using this feature, set the environment variable GCONF_IGNORE_FZF=1.

If you like to customize the colors indicating the current namespace or context, set the environment variables GCONF_CURRENT_FGCOLOR and GCONF_CURRENT_BGCOLOR (refer color codes here):

export GCONF_CURRENT_FGCOLOR=$(tput setaf 6) # blue text
export GCONF_CURRENT_BGCOLOR=$(tput setab 7) # white background

Colors in the output can be disabled by setting the NO_COLOR environment variable.