googleapis/google-cloud-go

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The official Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go, providing idiomatic Go packages for accessing Google Cloud Platform services such as Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Firestore, and many more. It handles authentication via Application Default Credentials and offers high-level API abstractions that reduce boilerplate.

Use cases

• access google cloud storage from a go application
• query bigquery datasets in go
• publish and consume pub/sub messages in go
• use firestore or datastore from a go backend
• authenticate to google cloud apis with service accounts in go
• call google cloud apis programmatically from go services

When to choose

• you are building Go applications or services on Google Cloud Platform
• you want official, maintained, idiomatic Go clients for GCP APIs
• you need automatic authentication via Application Default Credentials

When to avoid

• you are targeting AWS, Azure, or on-premise infrastructure instead of GCP
• you need a language other than Go
• you require a thin hand-rolled REST client with minimal dependencies

Facets

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sdk http-client auth database-driver message-queue object-storage cloud-computing developer-tools apis backend go cloud windows google-cloud gcp client-libraries bigquery pubsub cloud-storage firestore datastore linux macos

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