gcloud projects create [PROJECT_ID] [--no-enable-cloud-apis] [--folder=FOLDER_ID] [--labels=[KEY=VALUE,…]] [--name=NAME] [--organization=ORGANIZATION_ID] [--set-as-default] [--tags=[KEY=VALUE,…]] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
--organization or --folder flag.
example-foo-bar-1,
name Happy project and label type=happy:
gcloud projects create example-foo-bar-1 --name="Happy project" --labels=type=happy
By default, projects are not created under a parent resource. The following
command creates a project with ID example-2 with parent
folders/12345:
gcloud projects create example-2 --folder=12345
The following command creates a project with ID example-3 with
parent organizations/2048:
gcloud projects create example-3 --organization=2048PROJECT_ID]--enable-cloud-apiscloudapis.googleapis.com during creation. Enabled by
default, use --no-enable-cloud-apis to disable.
--folder=FOLDER_ID--labels=[KEY=VALUE,…]-), underscores (_), lowercase characters, and
numbers. Values must contain only hyphens (-), underscores
(_), lowercase characters, and numbers.
--name=NAME--organization=ORGANIZATION_ID--set-as-default--tags=[KEY=VALUE,…]<tag-key-namespaced-name>=<tag-value-short-name>.
Example: 123/environment=production,123/costCenter=marketing
--access-token-file,
--account, --billing-project,
--configuration,
--flags-file,
--flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account,
--log-http,
--project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled,
--verbosity.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
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