Google Authentication
Discover the process of authenticating to Google Cloud for Kubernetes management. Learn to create projects and service accounts with proper permissions, generate keys for Terraform authentication, and configure environment variables. This lesson helps you prepare for managing GKE clusters securely and effectively using Terraform.
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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 BILLINGbutton 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. ...