Hands-On Serverless Computing

Configuration/authentication

Once you have a Google Cloud project created, then follow these steps to download the credentials file that is required to execute the code sample:

1. Enable the Cloud Storage API for that project
2. Create a service account
3. Download a private key as JSON

On Linux or macOS, set the environmental variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the path to which you downloaded the preceding private key JSON file:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="[PATH]"

For example:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="~/scratch/service-account-file.json"

On Windows, set the environmental variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to the path to which you downloaded the preceding private key JSON file using a PowerShell command prompt: ...