(skip if you have a GCP account)
Open https://cloud.google.com in your browser.
If don’t already have a GCP account, click the “Start Free” button at the top-right and follow the prompts to create or log into your Google user account.
You can create an account with $300 of free Google Cloud credits good for 90 days, just follow the prompts to finish the account creation,.
(skip if gcloud is already installed on your workstation)
Follow the instalation steps for your operating system to install the gcloud CLI tool.
Part of gcloud setup includes creating a new GCP Project (or selecting from an existing one), whatever that project ID is, save it in an evironment variable here to simplify later steps
export GCP_PROJECT=snyk-workshop-project
Get a list of billing account ID':
gcloud billing accounts list
… which should return something like:
ACCOUNT_ID NAME OPEN MASTER_ACCOUNT_ID
010101-1A2B3C-98765A My Billing Account True
Copy the account ID value and past into the following to link it to your new project:
gcloud billing projects link $GCP_PROJECT --billing-account 010101-1A2B3C-98765A
billingAccountName: billingAccounts/010101-1A2B3C-98765A
billingEnabled: true
name: projects/snyk-devrel-workshop/billingInfo
projectId: snyk-devrel-workshop
Finally, we need to approve access to the GCP API’s needed for GKE work:
gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com
Operation "operations/acf.p2-344195889871-f2f72ad1-5e45-462b-9c28-26b9fc8f22ab" finished successfully.
From Google’s list of regions, chose the best one for you and use it in the following:
export GCP_REGION=us-south1 # Replace this with your chosen region
gcloud config set artifacts/location $GCP_REGION
gcloud config set compute/region $GCP_REGION
You’ll need to install kubectl command line tool to your local environment (if you don’t already have it).
Follow the instructions for your operating system at https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/
You also will need to install the gke-gcloud-auth-plugin for `kubectl``, follow the instructions for your operating system here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke
You’ll need git to clone the repository for this workshop. Most reading this will probably already have it installed but just in case you don’t, see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git for official instructions.
This workshop assumes you have a Docker (or compatible) runtime available to build and push container images. Docker Desktop or simply the docker cli tool are common choices for this, see https://docker.com for install details.
At least one of the modules assumes you have Python 3 available on your workstation to run a helper script
If you do not already have envsubst installed as part of the GNU gettext package, (most Linux distros include it), you will need it for at least one step in this workshop.
brew install gettext (assuming you have Homebrew installed)apt-get install gettext-baseapk add gettextpacman -S gettextyum install gettextdnf install gettextIf you are unable to install gettext via one of these means, you can also declare this one-line python script in your shell to emulate it:
envsubst() { python3 -c 'import os,sys;[sys.stdout.write(os.path.expandvars(l)) for l in sys.stdin]'; }
You can test this is working with a simple shell command like export MYNAME=Patch; echo 'My name is $MYNAME' | envsubst
export MYNAME=Patch; echo 'My name is $MYNAME' | envsubst
My name is Patch
Remember, though, if you switch to a new shell, you’ll need to re-declair that function in the new one.