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Google Cloud KMS API Python Samples

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This directory contains samples for Google Cloud KMS API. The Google Cloud KMS API is a service that allows you to keep encryption keys centrally in the cloud, for direct use by cloud services.

Setup

Authentication

This sample requires you to have authentication setup. Refer to the Authentication Getting Started Guide for instructions on setting up credentials for applications.

Install Dependencies

Clone python-docs-samples and change directory to the sample directory you want to use.
```
$ git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git
```
Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them. You may want to refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide for Google Cloud Platform for instructions.
Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.
```
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
```
Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.
```
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Samples

Quickstart

To run this sample:

$ python quickstart.py

Snippets

To run this sample:

$ python snippets.py