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Overview

CloudLabs utilizes the GCP Java Client Library to interface with GCP's API and execute operations.

To get started with development using the GCP's API, visit the official GCP guide.

Authentication

Authentication for development purposes is fairly straightforward, as one only needs to setup the Application Default Credentials (ADC) locally through the execution of a few simply commands using the gcloud command line utility.

  1. Install and initialize the gcloud CLI 
    gcloud init
  2. Create your credential file 
    gcloud auth application-default login

Revoke authentication when not needed: 

gcloud auth application-default revoke

After which, the CloudLabs server will be able to authenticate and communicate with GCP's API, if the client library is used. However, a Bearer authentication token will be required for manual requests, including the use of the curl utility.