Among various Google Cloud modules, a bunch of Python modules are required to make sure the Ansible modules work smoothly. These modules are as follows:
- apache-libcloud
- boto
- google-api-python-client
- google-auth
- google-auth-httplib2
These libraries can be obtained by using Python's pip tool:
$ pip install apache-libcloud boto google-api-python-client google-auth google-auth-httplib2
Along with these libraries, we need to get credentials from Google Cloud. All of the modules, except for the one used for Google Cloud Storage, can use a service account credential JSON file. Service accounts are special accounts typically associated with a non-human entity like a server or an application. This account can be used by applications and servers to interact with various APIs provided by Google Cloud. The advantage of using Service Account...
