> + * One can create a service account and use its private key to authenticate. > + * 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". > + * Details of the new service account will be displayed. You will also be > able to download the private key for this account, which you will need for > authentication. Make a note of the 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 for using GCE vis jclouds is to run [examples > programs](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/tree/master/google/src/main/java/org/jclouds/examples/google/computeengine). > 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.
"...is to run the examples. Download the [jclouds-example](...) repository and build the [google](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/tree/master/google) subproject. For details on how to run the examples, see the [README](...)." And create a README file in the examples repo similar to the [Rackspace example README](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/blob/master/rackspace/README.md)? Then we can also remove the next paragraph, which probably belongs in that README. The same might also go for the last paragraph? --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-site/pull/98/files#r13522420
