Merge pull request #66 from jgeewax/storage-tutorial

Fixed #37 - Added getting started tutorial for gcloud.storage.

docs/_components/creating-a-project.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+* **Create a project**
+
+  Start off by visiting https://cloud.google.com/console
+  and click on the big red button
+  that says "Create Project".
+
+* **Choose a name**
+
+  In the box that says "name",
+  choose something friendly.
+  This is going to be the *human-readable* name
+  for your project.
+
+* **Choose an ID**
+
+  In the box that says "ID",
+  choose something unique
+  (hyphens are OK).
+  I typically choose a project name
+  that starts with my initials,
+  then a hyphen,
+  then a unique identifier for the work I'm doing.
+  For this example,
+  you might choose ``<initials>-quickstart``.
+
+Then click OK
+(give it a second to create your project).

docs/_components/enabling-a-service-account.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Now that you have a project,
+we need to make sure we are able to access our data.
+There are many ways to authenticate,
+but we're going to use a Service Account for today.
+
+A *Service Account* is sort of like a username and password
+(like when you're connecting to your MySQL database),
+except the username is automatically generated
+(and is an e-mail address)
+and the password is actually a private key file.
+
+To create a Service Account:
+
+* **Click on Credentials**
+  under the "APIs & Auth" section.
+
+* **Click the big red button**
+  that says "Create New Client ID"
+  under the OAuth section
+  (the first one).
+
+* **Choose "Service Account"**
+  and click the blue button
+  that says "Create Client ID".
+
+* **This will automatically**
+  download a private key file.
+  **Do not lose this.**
+
+* **Rename your key** something shorter.
+  I like to name the key ``<project name>.p12``.
+
+  This is like your password for the account.
+
+* **Copy the long weird e-mail address**
+  labeled "E-mail address"
+  in the information section
+  for the Service Account
+  you just created.
+
+  This is like your username for the account.

docs/datastore-getting-started.rst

@@ -8,39 +8,13 @@ Getting started with Cloud Datastore
 Creating a project
 ------------------
 
-* **Create a project**
+.. include:: _components/creating-a-project.rst
 
-  Start off by visiting https://cloud.google.com/console
-  and click on the big red button
-  that says "Create Project".
-
-* **Choose a name**
-
-  In the box that says "name",
-  choose something friendly.
-  This is going to be the *human-readable* name
-  for your project.
-
-* **Choose an ID**
-
-  In the box that says "ID",
-  choose something unique
-  (hyphens are OK).
-  I typically choose a project name
-  that starts with my initials,
-  then a hyphen,
-  then a unique identifier for the work I'm doing.
-  For this example,
-  you might choose ``<initials>-quickstart``.
-
-Then click OK
-(give it a second to create your project).
-
-Enable the Cloud Datastore API
-------------------------------
+Enabling the API
+----------------
 
 Now that you created a project,
-you need to *turn on* the Cloud Datastore API.
+you need to **turn on** the Cloud Datastore API.
 This is sort of like telling Google
 which services you intend to use for this project.
 
@@ -53,54 +27,10 @@ which services you intend to use for this project.
   on the right side
   to turn it into an "On" button.
 
-Enable a "Service Account"
+Enabling a service account
 --------------------------
 
-Now that you have a project
-that has access to the Cloud Datastore API,
-we need to make sure we are able to access our data.
-There are many ways to authenticate,
-but we're going to use a Service Account for today.
-
-A *Service Account* is sort of like a username and password
-(like when you're connecting to your MySQL database),
-except the username is automatically generated
-(and is an e-mail address)
-and the password is actually a private key file.
-
-To create a Service Account:
-
-* **Click on Credentials**
-  under the "APIs & Auth" section.
-
-* **Click the big red button**
-  that says "Create New Client ID"
-  under the OAuth section
-  (the first one).
-
-* **Choose "Service Account"**
-  and click the blue button
-  that says "Create Client ID".
-
-* **This will automatically**
-  download a private key file.
-  **Do not lost this.**
-
-* **Rename your key** something shorter.
-  I like to name the key ``<project name>.key``.
-
-  This is like your password for the account.
-
-* **Copy the long weird e-mail address**
-  labeled "E-mail address"
-  in the information section
-  for the Service Account
-  you just created.
-
-  This is like your username for the account.
-
-OK. That's it!
-Time to start doing things with your Cloud Datastore project.
+.. include:: _components/enabling-a-service-account.rst
 
 Add some data to your dataset
 -----------------------------

docs/index.rst

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Services
 
   - Google's `official documentation <https://developers.google.com/storage/>`_
   - :doc:`storage-quickstart`
-  - `Getting started with Cloud Storage <https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python/issues/37>`_
+  - :doc:`Getting started with Cloud Storage <storage-getting-started>`
   - :doc:`Cloud Storage API Documentation <storage-api>`
 
 .. topic:: Compute Engine