Google Cloud Console: where things are (UI-path digest, 30 tasks, as of 2026-10-29)

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# Google Cloud Console: where things are (UI-path digest, 30 tasks, as of 2026-10-29)

## Credentials
- Create an API key: APIs & Services → Credentials → Create credentials → API key → add at least one restriction → Create [obj_01M5YG95S6M1VM9KE5RPJX8S7K]
- Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID: Google Auth Platform Clients page → CREATE CLIENT → choose app type → fill fields → CREATE [obj_01M5YGBGBBAKKWMZE4337TQV2F]

## IAM
- Create a service account: Create service account page → pick project → name/description → optional roles → finish [obj_01M5YGA2PJPQR10DC45QTJBA3K]
- Create a service account JSON key: Service accounts → account → Keys tab → Add key → Create new key → JSON [obj_01M5YGAKXKPCECCJS1RZPY9DN4]
- Grant an IAM role: IAM & Admin → IAM → Grant access → enter principal email → select role → Save [obj_01M5YGBVCBHB2B30CEG370VYG5]
- Rotate a service account key: Service accounts → account → Keys tab → Add key → Create new key (JSON) → update app → Delete the old key [obj_01M62WVG60QZDGVEPZN1DHA5Z9]
- Revoke an IAM role binding from a principal: IAM & Admin → IAM → principal row → Edit principal (pencil) → Delete next to the role → Save [obj_01M62WWHJMA7HTQRN4TF5HG6TA]
- Delete a service account key: Service accounts → account → Keys tab → Delete next to the key → confirm [obj_01M62WWT9E9F3JZSD19DVRQTBQ]

## APIs
- Enable an API for a project: APIs & Services → Library → search for the API → ENABLE [obj_01M5YGB6209SWNWGPT8SYWKXNY]

## Storage
- Create a Cloud Storage bucket: Cloud Storage → Buckets → Create → complete multi-step form (only name is required) → Create [obj_01M5YGC5ADE0PYRR9M6DDWKN4N]
- Create a snapshot of a persistent disk: Compute Engine → Disks → select disk → Create snapshot → name/description → Create [obj_01M62WW9TB42ADENEPD3VEHP4E]
- Create a new persistent disk from a snapshot (restore): Compute Engine → Disks → Create new disk → Source type: Snapshot → choose snapshot → set size → Create [obj_01M62WWES58D0DZT1RVS1V71DB]
- Increase the size of a persistent disk: Compute Engine → Disks → disk → Edit → new Size (GiB) → Save (no VM downtime required) [obj_01M62WXASWXT6XPZ83N4E39YKM]

## Billing
- Create a budget alert: Billing → Cost management → Budgets & alerts → Create budget → "Alerts only" → Finish (never caps spending, only notifies) [obj_01M5YGCFG4JDWSKMJPV8A7NK2W]
- View Cloud Billing reports: Billing → choose billing account → Reports page opens automatically with cost chart + table [obj_01M62WVK4Q3DBHZ4TDQJQR3Z5J]

## Quotas
- View quota usage and request a quota increase: IAM & Admin → Quotas & System Limits → filter by service → select quota → Edit → new value → Apply for higher quota if needed → Submit request [obj_01M62WVP0MS7F43NRQAN8Z2MWG]

## Security
- Create a secret in Secret Manager: Secret Manager → Create Secret → name + value → Create secret [obj_01M5YGCW3QTQBKSB4C5GZZP6T6]
- Rotate a Cloud KMS key (set a new primary version): Key Management → key ring → key → version row → View more (⋮) → Make primary version → Make primary [obj_01M62WWQ9JKEJ9SGJQXQ4SD1G5]

## Networking
- Create a VPC firewall rule: Firewall policies → Create firewall rule → name/network/direction/action/targets/filters/protocols → save [obj_01M5YGD7PVP7T43C3MM10QYMBH]

## Compute
- Stop and start a Compute Engine VM instance: Compute Engine → VM instances → ⋮ → Stop (confirm); then ⋮ → Start [obj_01M62WW3R5BGJDA9M51E2CTZ0Q]
- Change (resize) a Compute Engine VM's machine type: stop VM → VM details → Edit machine configuration → choose new type → Save → start VM [obj_01M62WW6RTJYMQP9F9Z2RZPPQF]
- Add an existing VM instance to an unmanaged instance group: Compute Engine → Instance groups → group → Edit → select VM(s) under "VM instances" → Save [obj_01M62WXDJWTN3HDE36QP57CDEX]

## Serverless
- Roll back a Cloud Run service to a previous revision: Services → service → Revision history tab → revision ⋮ → Manage traffic → Send all traffic to one revision → choose revision → Save [obj_01M62WVVWTVBDWTC3K7R6794XR]
- Deploy a new revision to an existing Cloud Run service: Services → service → edit Containers/Networking/Security/Scaling tabs → View diff & redeploy → Deploy changes [obj_01M62WW0V7PPXB7B1J5MHAB1F3]

## Monitoring
- Open Logs Explorer and view logs for a resource: Logs Explorer → select resource scope → set time range → optional filters → Run query [obj_01M62WVS3KCQ42NT3PQHZW70PE]
- View Cloud Monitoring alerting policies: Monitoring → Alerting → select project → review policies/notification channels [obj_01M62WWMEVR2BG68S6CQ7NZT5Q]
- Create a log sink to export logs: Log Router → Create sink → name/destination (Logging bucket/BigQuery/Storage/Pub-Sub) → build filters → Create sink → grant the writer identity IAM access on the destination [obj_01M62WX00NPWTQA33WZ3XDJ5N9]

## Database
- Restore a Cloud SQL instance from a backup: Cloud SQL Backups page → select tier/instance → find backup → Restore → choose destination (new / overwrite existing / overwrite source) → Restore [obj_01M62WWX6774HHK4YJYA8JR2Y6]
- Stop and start a Cloud SQL instance: Cloud SQL Instances → instance Overview → Stop (confirm); then Start (confirm) [obj_01M62WX7QG256FN7Y15GD2F3M3]

## CI/CD
- Manually run a Cloud Build trigger: Triggers page → select project → find trigger → Run [obj_01M62WX2WZMA615AVPKB1N8SF3]

## Moved or changed recently
- API key creation's doc URL moved: the page now resolves under docs.cloud.google.com; the old cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/api-keys URL 301-redirects there [obj_01M5YG95S6M1VM9KE5RPJX8S7K]
- OAuth 2.0 client ID creation moved off APIs & Services → Credentials → Create credentials → OAuth client ID onto its own dedicated "Google Auth Platform Clients" page [obj_01M5YGBGBBAKKWMZE4337TQV2F]
- The whole Google Cloud documentation site has moved its canonical host from cloud.google.com/docs/... to docs.cloud.google.com/...; every cloud.google.com doc URL this lane tried 301-redirected there [obj_01M62WVG60QZDGVEPZN1DHA5Z9]

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