Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Developer tool integrations

For local development, Google has made many plugins available for editors, including JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ and Android Studio, as well as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio. These plugins make it possible to do things like deploy applications from within your IDE, perform remote debugging on applications running in the cloud, and simulate cloud services locally. Several of these tools can be downloaded directly from the Cloud Console. Go to Navigation menu | Source Repositories | Tools and Plugins to get started.

We'll get our hands dirty with using some of these tools and features in later chapters, but for now let's look at how to add Google Cloud support to IntelliJ, which we will use in later chapters. ...