GCP Account Preparation

1. Create a project if you don't have one already.

2. Enable the Deployment Manager API for the created project.

3. Enable the Runtime Configuration API for the created project.

4. Create a service account.

5. Go to the IAM page and add the following roles to the created service account:

   1. Compute Admin

   2. Storage Admin

   3. Deployment Manager Editor

   4. Cloud RuntimeConfig Admin

6. Make sure you have a quota to run GPU instances:

   1. Go to the quotas page in "IAM & admin" and filter the list of services by setting the Metric field to "GPUs (all regions)": https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/quotas?metric=GPUs%20(all%20regions).

   2. Check the limit for the "Compute Engine API" service. If it's a zero, select the service and click the "[+] EDIT QUOTAS" button at the top of the page.

   3. Set a new quota limit to 1 or more and submit the request.

7. Install Google Cloud SDK.

8. Before using Spotty commands like spotty start, spotty run and others, make sure that the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environmental variable is set up and contains the path to your service account key file:

   export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/path/to/the/service/account/key/file.json"