Preparing the prerequisites before developing our data warehouse

Before starting our practice exercise, let's carry out these small but important steps for authentication purposes. In this section, we will do the following:

1. Access Cloud Shell
2. Check our credentials using gcloud info
3. Initialize our credentials using gcloud init
4. Download example code and datasets from git
5. Upload data to GCS from git

Let's look at each of these steps in detail.

Step 1: Access your Cloud shell

Revisit Chapter 2, Big Data Capabilities on GCP, if you haven't accessed your cloud shell in the GCP console.

Step 2: Check the current setup using the command line 

We want to check our current setup in Cloud Shell. To do that in Cloud Shell, type the following:

#gcloud info

Click authorize if prompted.

This command will give you information about installed components, Python versions, directories, and much more information besides. But what...