GCP Setup

To set up GCP, please follow the steps below:

1. If you don't have a GCP account, please create a free trial.
2. Setup new project and write down your Project ID.
3. Configure service account to get access to this project and download auth-keys (.json). Please check the service account has all the permissions below:
   • Viewer
   • Storage Admin
   • Storage Object Admin
   • BigQuery Admin
4. Download SDK for local setup.
5. Set environment variable to point to your downloaded auth-keys:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="<path/to/your/service-account-authkeys>.json"

# Refresh token/session, and verify authentication
gcloud auth application-default login

6. Enable the following options under the APIs and services section:
   • Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
   • IAM service account credentials API
   • Compute Engine API (if you are going to use VM instance)