Technical requirements
The following are the technical requirements for this chapter:
- You need to have Python 3.7 or later installed on your computer.
- You will need a service account for Google Cloud Platform. A free account will work fine.
- You will need the Google Cloud SDK installed on your computer.
- You will need Apache Beam installed on your computer.
The sample code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-for-Geeks/tree/master/Chapter09.
We will start our discussion by looking at the cloud options that are available for developing applications for cloud deployments.