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See the Google Cloud .NET Memcached [Installation](https://googleapis.github.io/google-cloud-dotnet/docs/Google.Cloud.Memcache.V1/index.html#installation) documentation for more details.\n\n### Go\n\n```sh\ngo get cloud.google.com/go/memcache/apiv1\n```\n\n### Java\n\nIf you are using Maven with BOM, add this to your pom.xml file \n\n```java\n\u003cdependencyManagement\u003e\n \u003cdependencies\u003e\n \u003cdependency\u003e\n \u003cgroupId\u003ecom.google.cloud\u003c/groupId\u003e\n \u003cartifactId\u003elibraries-bom\u003c/artifactId\u003e\n \u003cversion\u003e20.8.0\u003c/version\u003e\n \u003ctype\u003epom\u003c/type\u003e\n \u003cscope\u003eimport\u003c/scope\u003e\n \u003c/dependency\u003e\n \u003c/dependencies\u003e\n\u003c/dependencyManagement\u003e\n \n\u003cdependencies\u003e\n \u003cdependency\u003e\n \u003cgroupId\u003ecom.google.cloud\u003c/groupId\u003e\n \u003cartifactId\u003egoogle-cloud-memcache\u003c/artifactId\u003e\n \u003c/dependency\u003e\n```\n\nIf you are using Maven without BOM, add this to your dependencies: \n\n```java\n\u003cdependency\u003e\n \u003cgroupId\u003ecom.google.cloud\u003c/groupId\u003e\n \u003cartifactId\u003egoogle-cloud-memcache\u003c/artifactId\u003e\n \u003cversion\u003e0.2.1\u003c/version\u003e\n\u003c/dependency\u003e\n```\n\nIf you are using Gradle, add this to your dependencies: \n\n```java\n compile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-memcache:0.2.1'\n```\n\nIf you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies: \n\n```java\n libraryDependencies += \"com.google.cloud\" % \"google-cloud-memcache\" % \"0.2.1\"\n```\n\n### Node.js\n\n```sh\nnpm install @google-cloud/memcache\n```\n\n### Python\n\nFor more on setting up your Python development environment, refer to [Python Development Environment Setup Guide](/python/docs/setup). \n\nMac/Linux \n\n```python\npip install virtualenv\nvirtualenv \u003cyour-env\u003e\nsource \u003cyour-env\u003e/bin/activate\n\u003cyour-env\u003e/bin/pip install google-cloud-memcache\n```\nWindows \n\n```python\npip install virtualenv\nvirtualenv \u003cyour-env\u003e\n\u003cyour-env\u003e\\Scripts\\activate\n\u003cyour-env\u003e\\Scripts\\pip.exe install google-cloud-memcache\n```\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\nSetting up authentication\n-------------------------\n\n1.\n [Install](/sdk/docs/install) the Google Cloud CLI.\n\n After installation,\n [initialize](/sdk/docs/initializing) the Google Cloud CLI by running the following command:\n\n ```bash\n gcloud init\n ```\n\n\n If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first\n [sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity](/iam/docs/workforce-log-in-gcloud).\n2.\n\n If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user\n account:\n\n ```bash\n gcloud auth application-default login\n ```\n\n You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.\n\n\n If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider\n (IdP), confirm that you have\n [signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity](/iam/docs/workforce-log-in-gcloud).\n\n\n A sign-in screen appears. After you sign in, your credentials are stored in the\n [local credential file used by ADC](/docs/authentication/application-default-credentials#personal).\n\nAdditional Resources\n--------------------\n\n### C++\n\n- [API Reference Documentation](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/latest)\n- [Source Code](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp)\n- [GitHub Issue Tracker](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/issues)\n- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgoogle-cloud-memorystore%5D%5Bc%2B%2B%5D)\n\n### C#\n\n- [API Reference Documentation](https://googleapis.github.io/google-cloud-dotnet/docs/Google.Cloud.Memcache.V1/index.html)\n- [Source Code](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-dotnet/tree/master/apis/Google.Cloud.Memcache.V1)\n- [GitHub Issue Tracker](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-dotnet/issues)\n- [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgoogle-cloud-memorystore%5D+%5Bc%23%5D)\n\n### Go\n\n- [API Reference Documentation](https://pkg.go.dev/cloud.google.com/go/memcache/apiv1?tab=doc)\n- [Source Code](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/tree/master/memcache/apiv1)\n- [GitHub Issue Tracker](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go/issues)\n- [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgoogle-cloud-memorystore%5D+%5Bgo%5D)\n\n### Java\n\n- [API Reference Documentation](https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-memcache/latest/overview)\n- [Source Code](https://github.com/googleapis/java-memcache)\n- [GitHub Issue Tracker](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/issues)\n- [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgoogle-cloud-memorystore%5D+%5Bjava%5D)\n\n### Node.js\n\n- [API Reference Documentation](https://googleapis.dev/nodejs/memcache/latest/index.html)\n- [Source Code](https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-memcache)\n- [GitHub Issue Tracker](https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-memcache/issues)\n- [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgoogle-cloud-memorystore%5D+%5Bnode.js%5D)\n\n### Python\n\n- [API Reference Documentation](https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-memcache/)\n- [Source Code](https://github.com/googleapis/python-memcache/)\n- [GitHub Issue Tracker](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python/issues)\n- [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgoogle-cloud-memorystore%5D+%5Bpython%5D)\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e"]]
