README.md

Google Cloud Platform Python Samples

Python samples for Google Cloud Platform products.

Google Cloud Samples

Check out some of the samples found on this repository on the Google Cloud Samples page.

Setup

1. Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them.

2. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git
   

3. Obtain authentication credentials.

   Create local credentials by running the following command and following the oauth2 flow (read more about the command here):

   gcloud auth application-default login
   

   Read more about Google Cloud Platform Authentication.

How to run a sample

1. Change directory to one of the sample folders, e.g. logging/cloud-client:

   cd logging/cloud-client/
   

2. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 3.6+.

   python3 -m venv env
   source env/bin/activate
   

3. Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Run the sample:

   python snippets.py
   

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.