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# Using LinuxKit on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
This is a quick guide to run LinuxKit on GCP. A lot of internal development and CI
has used Google Cloud so the support is very good; other platforms will have similar support soon.
## Setup
You have two choices for authentication with Google Cloud
1. You can use [Application Default Credentials](https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials)
2. You can use a Service Account
### Application Default Credentials
You need the [Google Cloud SDK](https://cloud.google.com/sdk/)
installed. Either install it from the URL or view `brew` (on a Mac):
```shell
brew tap caskroom/cask
brew cask install google-cloud-sdk
```
Or via source code:
```shell
wget https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-sdk-151.0.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf google-cloud-sdk-151.0.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
./google-cloud-sdk/install.sh
```
Then, set up some environment variables (adjust as needed) and login:
```shell
export CLOUDSDK_CORE_PROJECT=<GCP project>
export CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE=europe-west1-d
gcloud auth login
```
The authentication will redirect to a browser with Google login.
Also authenticate local applications with
```
gcloud auth application-default login
```
### Service Account
You can use [this guide](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/create-enable-service-accounts-for-instances#createanewserviceaccount)
to create a Service Account.
Make sure to download the credentials in JSON format and store them somewhere safe.
## Build an image
Add a `gcp` output line to your yaml config, see the example in `examples/gcp.yml`.
Then do `moby build myfile.yml`
This will create a local `myfile.img.tar.gz` compressed image file, upload it to the
specified bucket, and create a bootable image.
## Create an instance and connect to it
With the image created, we can now create an instance and connect to
the serial port.
```
moby run gcp -project myproject-1234 myfile
```