Google Cloud Functions

Starting a project

To start a new project in Google Cloud, we can go to the usual place.

Creating a virtual environment

First we have to install python3-venv with the following command.

sudo apt install python3 -venv

or 

python3 -m venv env_name

Then we have to activate the virtual environment with the following command.

source env_name/bin/activate

We will create a 'requirements.txt' file with the following command.

functions framework is a library that allows us to test google cloud functions locally