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With Private Bucket, IAM Permissions, and Safe Firewall ConfigsPhoto by Tim Gouw on UnsplashThe road to expertise in Cloud Computing is fraught with harrowingly extended afternoons, and countless under completed blog posts. When you want to quickly spin up a virtual machine, and start working in Python from a notebook in the browser, you’re often met with these frustrations. Why can’t I write to my bucket? What is preventing the notebook from working in my browser? Why can’t I see any files when I SSH into the machine? And maybe even “What is Docker?”

This article is intended to help other Data Scientists, who are venturing into the Google Compute Platform (“GCP”) stack, or possibly revisiting it while starting a new Kaggle competition. Follow my #FullStackDS thread on Twitter for similar posts.