Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification steps, which are required before the recipe can be executed:

  1. Create or select a GCP project.
  2. Enable billing and enable the default APIs (some APIs like BigQuery, storage, monitoring, and a few others are enabled automatically).
  3. Give a appropriate permission to create service accounts.
  4. Verify that the Google Cloud SQL API is enabled.

 

  1. Let us also create a Cloud SQL instance to test our service accounts:
    1. Navigate to the SQL submenu and click on Create instance.
    2. Select MySQL as your database engine and choose the latest generation.
    3. Give an Instance ID and a password.
    4. With the defaults, create a Cloud SQL instance:

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