Google Cloud Platform

There are many components within Bento which utilise Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. You will find that each of these components require valid credentials.

When running Bento inside a Google Cloud environment that has a default service account, it can automatically retrieve the service account credentials to call Google Cloud APIs through a library called Application Default Credentials (ADC).

Otherwise, if your application runs outside Google Cloud environments that provide a default service account, you need to manually create one. Once you have a service account set up which has the required permissions, you can create a new Service Account Key and download it as a JSON file. Then all you need to do set the path to this JSON file in the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.

Please refer to this document for details.