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Cloud Setup
- Identify an existing GCP to host the system, or acquire a new one if necessary.
- Identify a GCP IoT Core registry you would like to use, or create a new one if necessary
- Refer to GCP IoT Core Getting Started
for additional information
- Search for IoT Core in the GCP Console
- Click
Enable
- Click to create a new Registry
- Assign PUB/SUB topics to the registry as described in the Message Walk Guidance.
If the topics do not exist, create them
- Set the default Cloud Pub/Sub topic for the registry to the topic
udmi_target
- Set the Device state topic (may be hidden under Advanced Options) to
udmi_state
- Install the Google Cloud SDK in order to be able to use some of the tools included,
such as the
registrar tool
- Follow the guidance on Google Cloud SDK
installation documentation
- Once installed, configure the
application default credentials
using end-user credentials (
gcloud auth application-default login).
- Select the project your registry resides in using
gcloud config set project <YOUR_PROJECT_ID>
- Ensure the authenticated user has at minimum the following IAM permissions
in order to use the the
validator and registrar tools
- IoT Core Provisioner
- Pub/Sub Editor
- Install Cloud Functions