# Get Required Values + Set Up Configuration to Connect GCP Cloud via Public API

Login to your [Google Cloud](https://console.cloud.google.com/) and click your **project name** in the header to open the resource selection modal.

Select the project you want to add and save your **project id**

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Activate a cloud shell

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Paste and execute following command. A success message should be visible.

```
gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com storage-component.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com logging.googleapis.com monitoring.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com cloudkms.googleapis.com bigquery-json.googleapis.com dns.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com
```

Create a [service account](https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts/create). You can freely name the account but we recommend having **aikido** in it.

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Add both **Security Reviewer** and **Viewer** roles

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Click **done**, step 3 of the create service account can be skipped

Navigate to the detail page of the newly created service account

Go to the **Keys** tab and **create a new key**

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Select the **JSON** option. A json-file should be downloaded. Save this file.

You can now connect this cloud to Aikido using the public API.


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