GKE Prerequisites

Let’s look at the requirements you need to fulfill to successfully execute the commands:

• Please download Terraform CLI and install it. You’ll also need to install and set up kubectl.

• If you’re using GCP for the first time, then please open the GCP console and follow the instructions to register.

• To install Google SDK (gcloud CLI), please go to the Installing Google Cloud SDK section of the documentation and follow the instructions for your operating system.

  Note: You might have to run source /usr/local/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc in order to initiate GCloud.

• You need to create a project along with a service account. We’ll be explaining them in this lesson.

• Once you’ve created the project and service account, you need to enable billing to proceed further.

  Note: Open this link. If you don’t see the “ENABLE BILLING” button, you’re okay and we can move on. If it’s there, billing isn’t enabled. If that’s the case, click it and follow the instructions.