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authentication authentication verifies your identity for access to google cloud services and apis to run code or samples from a local development environment you can authenticate to compute engine by selecting one of the following options to use the rest api samples on this page in a local development environment you use the credentials you provide to the gcloud cli install the google cloud cli if you re using an external identity provider idp you must first sign in to the gcloud cli with your federated identity for more information see authenticate for using rest in the google cloud authentication documentation limitations you can only list relationships between vm instances and instance groups both managed and unmanaged you can only list referrers by using rest listing a single referrer a referrer is a resource that refers to another resource for vm instances a common referrer is an instance group for example assume that you have a vm instance named example ig a1 in zone us central1 a the vm instance is a member of an instance group called example ig in the same zone as shown in the diagram below to see this relationship call the listreferrers method on example ig a1 with the following http request get https compute googleapis com compute v1 projects myproject zones us central1 a instances example ig a1 referrers the server returns standard list response containing the following items items target https compute googleapis com compute v1 projects myproject zones us central1 a instances example ig a1 referencetype member_of referrer https compute googleapis com compute v1 projects myproject zones us central1 a instancegroups example ig in this case the target is example ig a1 which is a member_of the referrer the example ig instance group listing multiple referrers if a resource has more than one referrer the response returns a list of all referrers for the target resource if an instance belongs to two instance groups the response contains both instance groups for 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