This tutorial shows how to prepare your local machine for developing .NET and .NET core apps that run on Google Cloud and call Google Cloud APIs.
Install a development environment
The recommended development environment for running the .NET tutorials and sample apps in this documentation is Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.
Create a Google Cloud project
Create a Google Cloud project to run your apps. Google Cloud projects form the basis for creating, enabling, and using all Google Cloud services.
Authentication
During local development, your .NET app must authenticate itself in order to interact with Google Cloud APIs. The following instructions describe how to create a service account key to authenticate your app. Apps can use this method to authenticate locally and when deployed to Google Cloud. Read more about authentication, including how authentication is handled once your app is deployed.
Create a service account key for authentication
Create a service account:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Create service account page.
In the Service account name field, enter a name. The Google Cloud console fills
in the Service account ID field based on this name.
In the Service account description field, enter a description. For example,
To provide access to your project, grant the following role(s) to your
service account: Project > Owner.
In the Select a role list, select a role.
For additional roles, click
Click Done to finish creating the service account.
Do not close your browser window. You will use it in the next step.
Create a service account key:
Console
Service account for quickstart
.
Set up authentication:
Create the service account:
Replace
Grant roles to the service account. Run the following command once for each of the
following IAM roles:
Replace the following:
Generate the key file:
Replace the following:
gcloud
gcloud iam service-accounts create NAME
NAME
with a name for the service account.
roles/owner
:
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="serviceAccount:SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" --role=ROLE
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME
: the name of the service accountPROJECT_ID
: the project ID where you created the service accountROLE
: the role to grantgcloud iam service-accounts keys create FILE_NAME.json --iam-account=SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com
FILE_NAME
: a name for the key fileSERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME
: the name of the service accountPROJECT_ID
: the project ID where you created the service account
Next, set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
to the path of the JSON key that was downloaded. In PowerShell,
the commands are:
For this PowerShell session.
PS > $env:GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS = "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\your-project-id-dea9fa230eae3.json"
For all processes created after this command.
PS > [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS", "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\your-project-id-dea9fa230eae3.json", "User")
(Optional) Install .NET tools and SDKs
Even though you can create and manage Google Cloud resources via your web browser using the Google Cloud console, if you'd prefer to manage your Google Cloud resources from within Visual Studio or from the command-line, you can consider installing the following tools:
Google Cloud CLI: The gcloud CLI is a command-line interface for Google Cloud products and services.
Tools for Visual Studio: Tools for Visual Studio enables development in Visual Studio on Google Cloud.
Tools for PowerShell: Tools for PowerShell is a set of cmdlets for Windows PowerShell that lets you manage Google Cloud resources.