GCP - Free Tier Setup

• Project Creation
  • name : project-phoenix
  • Billing export
    • Billing -> Billing Export -> Edit Settings -> Create new Dataset

      select project.name as project, service.description as resource, round(sum(cost)) as total_cost
      from precise-slice-436003-r4.billing
      

• Service Account keys
  • Compute Engine -> VM Engine -> Enable (This will create a service account as its process of enabling)
  • IAM -> Service Account -> Locate the service account, click adn goto Keys -> add new kepo adn download
• Cloud shell setup - gcloud configurations
  • gcloud init and follow the prompt. Use the relevant GCP account when prompted on the browser
  • switch to the config created above gcloud config configurations activate gitops