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id: google-cloud-compute
version: "1.50.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-compute — Google Cloud Compute API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install google-cloud-compute
uv add google-cloud-compute
poetry add google-cloud-compute

## Description

Python Client for Google Compute Engine
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`Google Compute Engine`_: Compute Engine is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) product that offers self-managed virtual machine (VM) instances and bare metal instances.

- `Client Library Documentation`_
- `Product Documentation`_

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.. _Google Compute Engine: https://cloud.google.com/compute/
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/compute/latest/summary_overview
.. _Product Documentation:  https://cloud.google.com/compute/

Quick Start
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In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. `Select or create a Cloud Platform project.`_
2. `Enable...

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Python client library for Google Compute Engine that enables programmatic management of virtual machine instances and bare metal infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.

Verdict: Production-ready, actively maintained library with no known vulnerabilities and permissive licensing. Supports current Python versions (3.10–3.14) and integrates cleanly into the Google Cloud ecosystem. Suitable for applications requiring programmatic Compute Engine management at scale.

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