Google Cloud Configuration Notes

Configure GCP Cloud Environment

Create a Google account. Here

• Create a new project
• Make sure to keep track of the Project ID and the location for your project

Create a service account

• In the left-hand menu, click on "IAM & Admin" and then select "Service accounts"
• Click on the "Create Service Account" button at the top of the page
• Enter a name for the service account and an optional description
• Then add the BigQuery Admin, Storage Admin, Storage Object Admin as roles for our service account and click the save button.
• Enable IAM APIs by clicking the following links:
  • IAM-API
  • IAM-credential-API

Authenticate the VM or Local environment with GCP

• In the left navigation menu, click on "IAM & Admin" and then "Service accounts"
• Click on the three verticals dots under the action section for the service name you just created
• Then click Manage keys, Add key, Create new key. Select JSON option and click Create
• Move the key file to a system folder

$ mkdir -p $HOME/.gcp/ 
$ mv ~/Downloads/{xxxxxx}.json ~/.gcp/{acc_credentials}.json

• install the SDK and CLI Tools
  • Follow the instruction here
• Validate the installation and login to GCP with the following commands

echo 'export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="~/.gcp/{acc_credentials}.json"' >> ~/.bashrc
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="~/.gcp/{acc_credentials}.json"
gcloud auth application-default login

• Follow the login process