blog: Using GCP remotes in DVC

[flippedcoder]

Tentative publish date: 06/27/22 07/06/22

Things left to update:

• image (make sure to use https://tinypng.com/)
• comments link
• technical style (code blocks formatted correctly with dvc, python, yaml, etc)
• update branch with master

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[flippedcoder]

Hey @julieg18! I'm a little confused by the error here. 😅 We don't have a 2022-05-17 folder or any blog posts published on that day. Do you know why this might be throwing?

[julieg18]

Hey @julieg18! I'm a little confused by the error here. 😅 We don't have a 2022-05-17 folder or any blog posts published on that day. Do you know why this might be throwing?

Looks like #3519 was merged with some missing images, breaking master deployment! I'll open an pr fixing the images!

[flippedcoder]

Looks like #3519 was merged with some missing images, breaking master deployment! I'll open an pr fixing the images!

Oh... Sorry about that! 😅 Let me know if you need anything from me!

[julieg18]

Oh... Sorry about that! 😅 Let me know if you need anything from me!

No worries! Pr is opened (#3604) and I requested your review. Though the websites team may approve it before you end up reading this :)

[flippedcoder]

No worries! Pr is opened (#3604) and I requested your review. Though the websites team may approve it before you end up reading this :)

Done! I'll get it merged to this branch once it's on master! Thanks @julieg18! I can't believe I forgot to update the image links... 🤦🏽‍♀️

[flippedcoder]

@dberenbaum Would you mind approving this PR? Unless you see something else, we plan to publish this tomorrow.

[dberenbaum]

Thanks for pinging me @flippedcoder! Sorry for the late review.

It all looks good except that I still had trouble getting the permissions to work when following along. Could you take a look at whether we need to add steps to give the service account permissions to access the bucket? Or maybe someone else can try the tutorial before we publish? I don't want users to get frustrated if they hit similar permissions issues.

[flippedcoder]

@dberenbaum No worries! Thanks for taking a look!

I'm not sure why we seem to be getting different flows with setting up this bucket. Maybe @daavoo could weigh in?

[dberenbaum]

LGTM @flippedcoder!

Edit: pending the couple typos noted above 😅 .

[dtrifiro]

Looks good!

Thinking some more about service accounts, it would be worth it to mention that it's required only in two cases:

• The bucket is going to be used in a CI/CD scenario
• The user does not have the GCP CLI installed

I think people would be happy to skip a "setup" step if they can (and get playing around with the project/code sooner) when they're just following the guide step by step, and mentioning CI/CD in the service account section will make it clear to people that that's the part they will need to follow when they're actually setting up dvc with google storage remotes on a real project.