These samples demonstrate usage of the google-cloud-compute library to interact with the Google Compute Engine API.
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If you haven't already, set up a Python Development Environment by following the python setup guide and create a project.
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Use
gcloud auth application-default login
to allow the script to authenticate using your credentials to the Google Cloud APIs.
Create a new virtual environment and install the required libraries.
virtualenv --python python3 name-of-your-virtualenv
source name-of-your-virtualenv/bin/activate
pip install -r ../requirements.txt
Run the quickstart script, it will create and destroy a n1-standard-1
type machine in the europe-central2-b
zone.
python quickstart.py