Mastering Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2.x

Linking your terminal to the Google Cloud project and bucket

In the steps in the preceding section, we set up the Google Cloud SDK. Now, we need to carry out the most important step, which is linking Ubuntu Terminal to the Google Cloud project and the bucket you created previously.

Why do you need to link Ubuntu Terminal to the Google Cloud project? The answer is we initiate the training command using Terminal in the local PC, but our data is stored in the storage bucket in GCP and the model will be generated in the GCP. So, we need to link our PC Terminal to GCP to accomplish the training task.

Enter the following steps in sequential order in Terminal:

1. Set up the project—in this case, it is rcnn-trainingpack:

$ gcloud config set project ...