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 and set up appropriate authentication
4. Verify that the Cloud Bigtable Admin API is enabled
5. Install the command-line tools—cbt and bq
6. Install pip and virtualenv