I will do it the next time I have some more time to work on it.


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Andrew Phillips
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> In guides/google.md:
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> > +  * Unless configured otherwise, programs running on a GCE instance can perform operations as the project's default service account ([documentation](https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/authentication)).
> > +
> > +You can find all the details in [the documentation](https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2), while in these examples we will focus only on service accounts (bullet 2).
> > +
> > +To create a new service account:
> > +  * Go to the [Developer Console](https://console.developers.google.com/).
> > +  * Choose API & auth > Credentials.
> > +  * Click "Create new Client ID".
> > +  * Select "Service account" and click "Create service ID".
> > +  * Data about the new service account will be visilble in the console and a private key will be downloaded. Notice that the data includes service account email address - you will need it to use the account.
> > +  * To keep the examples simple, we use private keys without passwords. It might be something you will not do in a production environment, but for the examples run: `openssl pkcs12 -in {downloaded_file}.p12 -nodes -out gcp-example.pem  -passin pass:notasecret`.
> > +
> > +## <a id="examples"></a>Running examples
> > +A good starting point is to run examples programs. For this, download the [jclouds-example](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples
> ) repository and build the "google" Maven project. Each example can be run by passing the service account email as the first parameter and the path to the gcp-example.pem file (created by removing the password from the *.p12 file by the command above) as the second.
> > +
> > +For example, running [org.jclouds.examples.google.computeengine.CreateServer](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/blob/master/google/src/main/java/org/jclouds/examples/google/computeengine/CreateServer.java) will create a new virtual machine running Debian (and its persistent disk). Open the [Developer Console](https://console.developers.google.com/) and navigate to your project and choose "Compute Engine" to see it. You can use gcutil from Google Cloud SDK to ssh to that machine - see the SSH button on that page.
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