Python Client for Compute Engine

Compute Engine: delivers virtual machines running in Google's innovative data centers and worldwide fiber network. Compute Engine's tooling and workflow support enable scaling from single instances to global, load-balanced cloud computing. Compute Engine's VMs boot quickly, come with persistent disk storage, deliver consistent performance and are available in many configurations.

• 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.
4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in a virtual environment using venv. venv is a tool that creates isolated Python environments. These isolated environments can have separate versions of Python packages, which allows you to isolate one project's dependencies from the dependencies of other projects.

With venv, it's possible to install this library without needing system install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system dependencies.

PyCharm/JetBrains IDEs

This library has now grown in size past the JetBrains default size limit of ~2.5Mb. As a result, code completion in JetBrains products can fail to work with the classes from our library. To fix this, you need to update the idea.max.intellisense.filesize setting in custom properties (Help -> Edit custom properties...). Just add the line idea.max.intellisense.filesize = 10000 to change this limit to ~10Mb.

Code samples and snippets

Code samples and snippets live in the samples/ folder.

Supported Python Versions

Our client libraries are compatible with all current active and maintenance versions of Python.

Python >= 3.7

Unsupported Python Versions

Python <= 3.6

If you are using an end-of-life version of Python, we recommend that you update as soon as possible to an actively supported version.

Mac/Linux

python3 -m venv 
source /bin/activate
pip install google-cloud-compute

Windows

py -m venv 
.\\Scripts\activate
pip install google-cloud-compute

Next Steps

• Read the Client Library Documentation for Compute Engine to see other available methods on the client.
• Read the Compute Engine Product documentation to learn more about the product and see How-to Guides.
• View this README to see the full list of Cloud APIs that we cover.