The following are the initial setup verification steps to be carried out 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. Install the Google Cloud SDK on your development machine, we'll be using the gsutil command
4. Install Hugo on your development machine: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/