> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started.md).

# Getting Started

- [Google Cloud Platform](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/google-cloud-platform.md): Get started on Google Cloud Platform by signing up for a free account and creating a new project to use.
- [Cloud Shell](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/cloud-shell.md)
- [gcloud CLI](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/gcloud-cli.md): Install gcloud command to interact with Google Cloud Platform from the command line.
- [Hello World!](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/helloworld.md): Google Cloud Platform has a range of different runtime environments to run your Java / Spring Boot application.
- [Cloud Shell](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/helloworld/cloud-shell.md): Use Cloud Shell to build and test applications for development purpose.
- [App Engine](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/helloworld/app-engine.md): Deploy a JAR to a fully managed PaaS with just one command.
- [Cloud Run](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/helloworld/cloud-run.md): Deploy a container to serverless environment using a single command.
- [Kubernetes Engine](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/helloworld/kubernetes-engine.md): Create a Kubernetes cluster and deploy a container.
- [Compute Engine](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/helloworld/compute-engine.md): Create a VM then deploy your application to the VM.
- [Cloud Functions](https://spring-gcp.saturnism.me/getting-started/helloworld/cloud-functions.md): Deploy a simple HTTP function.


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