github.com/Jeffail/benthos/v3@v3.65.0/website/docs/guides/cloud/gcp.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: Google Cloud Platform 3 description: Find out about GCP components in Benthos 4 --- 5 6 There are many components within Benthos which utilise Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. You will find that each of 7 these components require valid credentials. 8 9 When running Benthos inside a Google Cloud environment that has a 10 [default service account](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts#default), it can automatically retrieve the 11 service account credentials to call Google Cloud APIs through a library called Application Default Credentials (ADC). 12 13 Otherwise, if your application runs outside Google Cloud environments that provide a default service account, you need 14 to manually create one. Once you have a service account set up which has the required permissions, you can 15 [create](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials/serviceaccountkey) a new Service Account Key and download it 16 as a JSON file. Then all you need to do set the path to this JSON file in the `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` 17 environment variable. 18 19 Please refer to [this document](https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production) for details.