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This repostory provides an example how to use gcloud tool to manage your google cloud platform.

Besides, all examples are based on the ansible playbook and ansible will generate some userful meta data after the opration of gcloud.

For example, You can get the instances' IP addresses after you create instances on google computing platform, ssh to those instacnes via IP address and customized setup your instances.

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##Google Compute Engine

Create instances

boot_disk_size

boot_disk_type

instance_name

image_family

image_project

can_ip_forward

zone

ssh-key-file

If you specific the ssh public key file, the gcloud will use those key when it create instances and you can connect to those instances without password The format of key files should follow Managing Instance Access with SSH Key Pairs

Stop instances

How to use

You should setup gcloud environment first, and you can refer to here to learn more about it.