APIs and references

Authentication

• Authenticate to Compute Engine

  This document describes how to authenticate to Compute Engine if you are using client libraries, Google Cloud CLI, or REST.

Terraform

• Provision Compute Engine resources with Terraform

  This document describes how to provision Compute Engine resources using Terraform.

Compute Engine API

• V1 API reference

  Programming reference for the V1 Compute Engine API.

• Beta API reference

  Programming reference for the Beta Compute Engine API.

• Prerequisites

  A few things you need to do before you start coding.

• Using the API

  Some quick ways to start using the Compute Engine API.

• Creating API requests and handling responses

  Learn how to construct API requests and handle API responses from the Compute Engine API.

• Standard query parameters

  Query parameters that can be used with all methods and all resources in the Compute Engine API.

• Improving application performance

  Techniques you can use to improve the performance of your application.

• Batch requests

  Batch API calls together to reduce the number of HTTP connections your client has to make.

• API rate limits

  API rate limits define the number of requests that can be made to the Compute Engine API.

• Compute Engine client libraries

  You can use the Compute Engine API through a number of Google-provided libraries or through third-party open source libraries.

• Using client libraries

  How to use the Cloud Client Libraries for Compute Engine.

gcloud compute

• Overview

  Learn about the Google Cloud CLI, which enables you to easily manage your Compute Engine resources.

• Common commands

  View the most common Google Cloud CLI commands for managing your Compute Engine resources.

• Usage tips

  View usage tips for working with the Google Cloud CLI.

Google Cloud Console

• Google Cloud console

  This document briefly describes how to access the console and describes some unique features that the console offers.

• SSH-in-browser

  SSH-in-browser lets you use SSH to connect to a Compute Engine VM from within the Google Cloud console.