Google Cloud DNS Python Samples

This directory contains samples for Google Cloud DNS. Google Cloud DNS allows you publish your domain names using Google's infrastructure for production-quality, high-volume DNS services. Google's global network of anycast name servers provide reliable, low-latency authoritative name lookups for your domains from anywhere in the world.

Setup

Authentication

Authentication is typically done through Application Default Credentials, which means you do not have to change the code to authenticate as long as your environment has credentials. You have a few options for setting up authentication:

When running locally, use the Google Cloud SDK
```
gcloud auth application-default login
```
When running on App Engine or Compute Engine, credentials are already set-up. However, you may need to configure your Compute Engine instance with additional scopes.
You can create a Service Account key file. This file can be used to authenticate to Google Cloud Platform services from any environment. To use the file, set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable to the path to the key file, for example:
```
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/service_account.json
```

Install Dependencies

Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them.
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

Snippets

To run this sample:

$ python main.py

The client library

This sample uses the Google Cloud Client Library for Python. You can read the documentation for more details on API usage and use GitHub to browse the source and report issues.