Google Cloud Platform

The Google Cloud Platform (gcloud) provider manages one resource, gcloud_gce.

gcloud_gce

Google Compute Engine (gce) instances are provisioned using this resource.

• Topology Example
• Ansible module

Additional Dependencies

No additional dependencies are required for the Google Cloud (gcloud) Provider.

Credentials Management

Google Compute Engine provides several ways to provide credentials. LinchPin supports some of these methods for passing credentials for use with openstack resources.

Environment Variables

LinchPin honors the gcloud environment variables.

Configuration Files

Google Cloud Platform provides tooling for authentication. See https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/oauth/ for options.