Commit 7f140cdf authored by Mitchell Hashimoto's avatar Mitchell Hashimoto

website: more docs on getting the key

parent b6760581
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a private key. Note the password for the private key! This private key
is your _client private key_.
These two files you downloaded are necessary for Packer to talk to
Google Compute Engine.
Finally, one last step, you'll have to convert the `p12` file you
got from Google into the PEM format. You can do this with OpenSSL, which
is installed standard on most Unixes:
```
$ openssl pkcs12 -in <path to .p12> -nocerts -passin pass:notasecret \
-nodes -out private_key.pem
```
The client secrets JSON you downloaded along with the new "private\_key.pem"
file are the two files you need to configure Packer with to talk to GCE.
## Basic Example
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