How to Check Which Gcloud Project is Active

To check which Google Cloud project is currently active in your environment, you can use the following commands in our terminal:

Command 1: gcloud config get-value project
This will return the active project ID that your gcloud command-line tool is using.

This command is useful for quickly identifying which Google Cloud project your gcloud commands are currently targeting without displaying additional configuration details.

Command 2: gcloud info | grep project
This command will search through the output of gcloud info to show lines containing the keyword “project”.

This will return the active project ID that your gcloud command-line tool is using.
If no project is set, the output might be empty or display a default or null project.

Command 3: gcloud projects list –filter=’lifecycleState:ACTIVE’

This command will list all Google Cloud projects that are currently in the ACTIVE state under your account or organization. It filters the projects based on their lifecycleState, only returning those that are currently active and available for use.

Each project listed will have:

• PROJECT_ID: The unique identifier for the project.
• NAME: The name of the project.
• PROJECT_NUMBER: A unique number assigned to the project.

Projects that are not in the active state, such as those that have been deleted or are being deleted, will not appear in the results.