Initial setup

Overview

This page outlines the steps to get to a stage where we can run packer in gcp. These will be manual / in the gui. Later we can run packer.

Initial setup steps Steps

1. Create project
2. Create service account, download json file

Packer run

1. Set application default credentials: export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path_to_json>
2. Run Packer packer build vm_image.json