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• Using Google Compute Engine with open source software
• Using custom images
• Storing and Retrieving Metadata
  • Querying metadata
    • Get project-id:  curl -H 'X-Google-Metadata-Request: True' http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/project/project-id
    • Custom KV foo:  curl -H 'X-Google-Metadata-Request: True' http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/foo
    • Primary Disk Name:  curl -H 'X-Google-Metadata-Request: True' http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/disks/0/device-name
    • Recursive:  curl -H 'X-Google-Metadata-Request: True' 'http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/?recursive=true' | python -c 'import sys, json, pprint; pprint.pprint(json.load(sys.stdin))'
• gcutil:  addinstance
  • Creating and Starting an Instance
  • Important Flags and Parameters
• Networking
  • Firewalls
• Preparing an Instance to Use Service Accounts
  • Ref: Service Accounts _ Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs
• Start Up Scripts
  • github: GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/google-startup-scripts
• Security recommendations