Set up a project

Before you perform operations in Telecom Network Automation, you must set up a Google Cloud project. To set up a project, complete the following steps.

Before you begin

Before continuing, ensure you have the following:

• The latest version of the gcloud command line interface (CLI) tool. Do either of the following:

  • For full installation instructions, see Install the gcloud CLI.

  • Update your existing version using the following command:

    gcloud components update
    

• Confirm you have version 1.25.8 of the kubectl CLI.

  Note: Ensure you don't have the default kubectl version 1.26 or greater, as this version might not work with GDC clusters.

• Have one or more GDC racks at target locations.

  • The software must run version 1.5.0. For more information, see Installation requirements.

Set up your Google Cloud project

Before you provision Telecom Network Automation, you must set up a Google Cloud project:

1. Set your default project:

   gcloud config set project PROJECT_NAME
   

   Replace PROJECT_NAME with a name for your project.

2. In the default project, start the GKE compute endpoints:

   gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com
   

3. Assign the environment variables:

   export PROJECT_ID=$(gcloud config get-value project)
   export PROJECT_NUM=$(gcloud projects describe $PROJECT_ID
   --format="value(projectNumber)")
   export LOCATION=ZONE
   # create a /workdir to clone all repositories
   mkdir ~/workdir
   cd ~/workdir
   

   Replace ZONE with the zone closest to your location, such as us-central1-a.

4. Assign IAM roles to users in your organization to grant permission to your Google Cloud project:

   gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID
   --member='user:EMAIL' --role='ROLE'
   

   Replace the following:

   • EMAIL: the email of the user to bind the role to.
   • ROLE: the name of the role. For example, roles/owner. For a full list of Telecom Network Automation roles, see Architecture and permissions.

5. Enable Telecom Network Automation endpoints in the project:

   gcloud services enable telcoautomation.googleapis.com
   

6. Set the default gcloud timeout:

   gcloud config set http_timeout 3600
   

7. Resolve Telecom Network Automation deployments by granting the Logs Viewer role to the limited-access Telecom Network Automation monitoring group:

   gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID
   --member=group:[e-mail] --role=roles/logging.viewer