> + * 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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