Get Started with Google Cloud — selected guide
What are Google Cloud quickstarts?
Twelve practical entries spanning docs, networking, storage, IAM, cost, data, workflows, and APIs
Twelve 2018–2022 introductions use small tasks to explain networking, persistent storage, access control, BigQuery queries and cost limits, object versions, sensitive-data inspection, workflow orchestration, and speech transcription.
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Google Cloud quickstarts are short, step-by-step tutorials for a first task, such as making an API call or deploying a Hello World application. They give developers a small working example when a new product is unfamiliar. 00:05–01:09(opens in a new tab)
Key Points Covered
- Tutorials offer different ways to use a service: through the Cloud console in a browser, command-line tools, or client libraries called from application code. 00:05–02:10(opens in a new tab)
- The Vision API example starts with project, billing, and authentication setup, then installs a client library and runs sample code to analyze an image. This separates the account setup from the code that calls the service. 01:09–03:12(opens in a new tab)
- Product documentation is the primary place to find quickstarts, with video walkthroughs as an additional format. 02:10–03:12(opens in a new tab)
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiZYhr9WTtQ(opens in a new tab)