The following are the initial setup verification steps for the creation of the network before the recipe can be executed:

1. Create or select a GCP project
2. Enable billing and enable the default APIs (some APIs like BigQuery, storage, monitoring, and a few others are enabled automatically)
3. Enable the Google Cloud IoT and Cloud Pub/Sub APIs for the project
4. Make sure that the code has access to GCP APIs using the Application Default Credential strategy or direct API keys