If you already have Google SDK installed, you can activate GCloud Interactive Shell, which is still in beta by the way, by typing the following command from the Google SDK terminal.

<pre lang="bash">gcloud beta interactive
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The interactive shell environment has auto-completion. It shows you who’s logged in and which project you are currently set in. To exit the interactive shell, just Press F9 to quit.