.TH "GCLOUD_SPANNER_SAMPLES" 1



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



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



.SH "DESCRIPTION"

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

Run the backend gRPC service for the given Cloud Spanner sample app.

.TP 2m
\fBinit\fR

Initialize a Cloud Spanner sample app.

.TP 2m
\fBlist\fR

List available sample applications.

.TP 2m
\fBrun\fR

Run the given Cloud Spanner sample app.

.TP 2m
\fBworkload\fR

Generate gRPC traffic for a given sample app's backend service.


.RE
.sp

.SH "NOTES"

These variants are also available:

.RS 2m
$ gcloud alpha spanner samples
.RE

.RS 2m
$ gcloud beta spanner samples
.RE