Install Tools

Prerequisites

Before you can deploy Hydrolix in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you'll need some supporting tools.

Cloud Infrastructure Tools

Hydrolix GCP uses Kubernetes. You can manage Kubernetes with the kubectl CLI tool.

This guide uses the Google Cloud CLI to manage GCP resources.

Check if kubectl is installed with the following command:

which kubectl

You should see output similar to /opt/homebrew/bin/kubectl. If this command outputs kubectl not found, you should install kubectl.

Check if gcloud is installed with the following command:

which gcloud

You should see output similar to /Users/<USERNAME>/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud. If this command outputs gcloud not found, you should install gcloud.

Hydrolix Environment Variables

Be sure to set the environment variables defined in the next step. You can load those environment variables with the following command:

source env.sh