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

Google Cloud Console

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