Google Authentication

Google account

For this chapter, we’ll need a few things specific to Google Cloud. To be more precise, we’ll need to create a project and a service account with sufficient permissions with an existing Google account. If we don’t have an account to use, then we begin with creating the account.

Note: To create a new account, please follow the steps in GCP console.

If we’re planning to use an account provided by a company, we need to make sure we have permission to create all the resources we’ll use in the exercises that follow.

We’ll need to create a project along with the service account. Once we’ve created the project and service account, we need to enable billing to proceed further.

Note: Open this link. If the ENABLE BILLING button is not there, we’re okay, and we can move on. If it is there, billing is not enabled. If that’s the case, click it and follow the instructions.

Now that we have a GCP account with billing enabled, we’ll have to login before we start creating “stuff.”