NAME gcloud sql generate-login-token - generate an IAM login token for Cloud SQL SYNOPSIS gcloud sql generate-login-token [--application-default-credential] [--instance=INSTANCE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...] DESCRIPTION gcloud sql generate-login-token generates an IAM token to use for logging in to Cloud SQL instances. EXAMPLES To generate an IAM login token using gcloud credentials, run: $ gcloud sql generate-login-token To generate an IAM login token using application default credentials, run: $ gcloud sql generate-login-token --application-default-credential To generate an IAM login token using gcloud credentials for instance my-instance, run: $ gcloud sql generate-login-token --instance=my-instance To generate an IAM login token using application default credentials for instance my-instance, run: $ gcloud sql generate-login-token --instance=my-instance \ --application-default-credential FLAGS --application-default-credential Use application default credentials to generate the login token. --instance=INSTANCE Cloud SQL instance ID. GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS These flags are available to all commands: --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. NOTES These variants are also available: $ gcloud alpha sql generate-login-token $ gcloud beta sql generate-login-token