Compute Engine API: Create and runs virtual machines on Google Cloud Platform.

• Client Library Documentation

• Product Documentation

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the Compute Engine API.

4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in avirtualenv using pip.virtualenv is a tool tocreate isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one ofdependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

Withvirtualenv, it’s possible to install this library without needing systeminstall permissions, and without clashing with the installed systemdependencies.

Mac/Linux

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env>source <your-env>/bin/activate<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-compute

Windows

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env><your-env>\Scripts\activate<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-compute

PyCharm/JetBrains IDEs

Since the library has grown in size, the files it consists of have outgrown thedefault size limit of ~2.5Mb.As a result, the code completion in JetBrains products can fail to work with the classes from our library. Tofix this, you need to update the idea.max.intellisense.filesize setting in custom properties(Help -> Edit custom properties…). Just add a line like idea.max.intellisense.filesize = 10000 to change thislimit to ~10Mb.

Next Steps

• Read theClient Library Documentation for Compute Engine APIAPI to see other available methods on the client.

• Read theCompute Engine API Product documentation to learnmore about the product and see How-to Guides.

• View thisREADME to see the full list of CloudAPIs that we cover.