.TH "GCLOUD_ALPHA_SPANNER_SAMPLES" 1



.SH "NAME"
.HP
gcloud alpha spanner samples \- cloud Spanner sample apps



.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP
\f5gcloud alpha spanner samples\fR \fICOMMAND\fR [\fIGCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG\ ...\fR]



.SH "DESCRIPTION"

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Each Cloud Spanner sample application includes a backend gRPC
service backed by a Cloud Spanner database and a workload script that generates
service traffic.

These sample apps are open source and available at
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud\-spanner\-samples.

To see a list of available sample apps, run:

.RS 2m
$ gcloud spanner samples list
.RE



.SH "GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS"

These flags are available to all commands: \-\-help.

Run \fB$ gcloud help\fR for details.



.SH "COMMANDS"

\f5\fICOMMAND\fR\fR is one of the following:

.RS 2m
.TP 2m
\fBbackend\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Run the backend gRPC service for the given Cloud Spanner sample
app.

.TP 2m
\fBinit\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Initialize a Cloud Spanner sample app.

.TP 2m
\fBlist\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR List available sample applications.

.TP 2m
\fBrun\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Run the given Cloud Spanner sample app.

.TP 2m
\fBworkload\fR

\fB(ALPHA)\fR Generate gRPC traffic for a given sample app's backend service.


.RE
.sp

.SH "NOTES"

This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this
command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project,
you might be trying to access an API with an invitation\-only early access
allowlist. These variants are also available:

.RS 2m
$ gcloud spanner samples
.RE

.RS 2m
$ gcloud beta spanner samples
.RE