The following are the initial setup verification steps to be taken before the recipe can be executed:

1. Create or select a GCP project.
2. Enable billing and enable the default APIs (some APIs such as BigQuery, storage, monitoring, and a few others are enabled automatically).
3. Verify that Google Cloud SDK is installed on your development machine.
4. Verify that the default project is set properly.
5. Install Docker on your development machine.
6. Install kubectl, the command-line tool for running commands against Kubernetes clusters:

$ gcloud components install kubectl