GCP: Glossary additions

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     "# Glossary\n",
     "\n",
-    "* **Account** - The Google account (email) associated with an individual.  This is the identity that you use to access console and takes the form of an email address.\n",
-    "* **Project** - Resources and services in Google Cloud are created within a single Project. \n",
-    "* **Project Name** - The long human readable name of your project.  You can change this.\n",
-    "* **Project ID** - an alpha-numeric string identifier for the project. This is not changeable.\n",
-    "* **Project Number** - a long number that also identifies the project but is rarely used (it is an internal identifier). \n",
-    "* **Billing Account** - an account used to pay for Google Cloud services. A Billing Account is associated with a Project and enables resource allocation.  A project has only one Billing Account associated with it.  A Billing account can be used for multiple Projects."
+    " * **Account** - The Google account (email) associated with an individual.  This is the identity that you use to access console and takes the form of an email address.\n",
+    " * **API** - Application Programming Interface (API).  An external interface for a library or software, usually well documented.  The cloud uses remote accessible APIs to allocate and control resources.\n",
+    " * **Billing Account** - an account used to pay for Google Cloud services. A Billing Account is associated with a Project and enables resource allocation.  A project has only one Billing Account associated with it.  A Billing account can be used for multiple Projects.\n",
+    " * **Bucket** - A collection of key value pairs (similar to a Python dictionary) and is often called object storage. Object storage in Google is called Cloud Storage and is similar to Amazon S3.\n",
+    " * **Cloud Shell** - A Linux command line interface (CLI) running inside the GCP web console. \n",
+    " * **Disk Image** - The operating system disk for a **VM Instance** such as Ubuntu, Debian, and other Linux distributions.\n",
+    " * **Project** - Resources and services in Google Cloud are created within a single Project. \n",
+    " * **Project Name** - The long human readable name of your project.  You can change this.\n",
+    " * **Project ID** - an alpha-numeric string identifier for the project. This is not changeable.\n",
+    " * **Project Number** - a long number that also identifies the project but is rarely used (it is an internal identifier). \n",
+    " * **Region** - A geographical region within the world (typically a city) in which a number of physical or logical data centers are located (each is a different **zone**).  An example of a **region** is `us-west2`, which is located in Los Angeles.\n",
+    " * **Service Account** - A machine **account** or identity that is used to give permissions to a resource, such as a **VM Instance** in GCP.  These take the form of an email, usually ending with `gserviceaccount.com`.\n",
+    " * **Label** - A key value pair attached to a resource to aid in finding resources, allocating billing, debugging, etc.. A Label is similar to a *tag* in AWS and Azure.  \n",
+    " * **VM Instance** - A Virtual Machine (VM) is a virtual computer running in a **zone**.\n",
+    " * **Zone** - A logical or physical data center (a building with computers in it) in which cloud resources physically reside.  Each **zone** in a **region** have different resources.  An example of a **zone** is `us-west2-c`."
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