GCP provides a web console and Command-Line Interface (CLI). Both make it easy and straightforward to control the GCP infrastructure, but Google accounts (such as Gmail) are required for use. Once you have a Google account, go to the GCP sign-up page (https://cloud.google.com/free/) to set up your GCP account.

If you want to control the GCP component via CLI, you need to install the Cloud SDK (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/), which is similar to the AWS CLI that you can use to list, create, update, and delete GCP resources. After installing the Cloud SDK, you need to configure it with the following commands to associate it to a GCP account:

$ gcloud init