Google Compute Engine: Node.js Client

Google Compute Engine Client Library for Node.js

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

Quickstart
Samples
Versioning
Contributing
License

Quickstart

Before you begin

Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
Enable billing for your project.
Enable the Google Compute Engine API.
Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install @google-cloud/compute

Using the client library

  // Imports the Google Cloud client library
  const Compute = require('@google-cloud/compute');

  // Creates a client
  const compute = new Compute();

  async function quickstart() {
    // Create a new VM using the latest OS image of your choice.
    const zone = compute.zone('us-central1-c');

    // TODO(developer): choose a name for the VM
    // const vmName = 'vm-name';

    // Start the VM create task
    const [vm, operation] = await zone.createVM(vmName, {os: 'ubuntu'});
    console.log(vm);

    // `operation` lets you check the status of long-running tasks.
    await operation.promise();

    // Complete!
    console.log('Virtual machine created!');
  }
  quickstart();

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. The samples' README.md has instructions for running the samples.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Create VM	source code
Delete VM	source code
List VMs	source code
Mailjet	source code
Quickstart	source code
Sendgrid	source code
Startup Script	source code
Vms	source code

The Google Compute Engine Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be in alpha. This means it is still a work-in-progress and under active development. Any release is subject to backwards-incompatible changes at any time.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE