Before you begin

This page shows how to create a Google Cloud project, enable the Live Stream API, create authentication credentials, and grant your account one or more IAM roles. This page also shows how to create a Cloud Storage bucket to hold the live stream output files and how to install an encoder to generate input streams that the API processes.

Create a project

  1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

  2. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  3. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  4. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command: 

    gcloud init

  5. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

    • Create a Google Cloud project:

      gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

    • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

      gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

  6. Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  7. Enable the Live Stream API: 

    gcloud services enable livestream.googleapis.com

  8. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account: 

    gcloud auth application-default login

    You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

    If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider (IdP), confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  9. Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/livestream.editor 

    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="user:USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE

    Replace the following:

    • PROJECT_ID: your project ID.
    • USER_IDENTIFIER: the identifier for your user account—for example, myemail@example.com.
    • ROLE: the IAM role that you grant to your user account.

  10. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  11. If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  12. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command: 

    gcloud init

  13. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

    • Create a Google Cloud project:

      gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

    • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

      gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

      Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

  14. Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  15. Enable the Live Stream API: 

    gcloud services enable livestream.googleapis.com

  16. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account: 

    gcloud auth application-default login

    You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

    If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider (IdP), confirm that you have signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

  17. Grant roles to your user account. Run the following command once for each of the following IAM roles: roles/livestream.editor 

    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member="user:USER_IDENTIFIER" --role=ROLE

    Replace the following:

    • PROJECT_ID: your project ID.
    • USER_IDENTIFIER: the identifier for your user account—for example, myemail@example.com.
    • ROLE: the IAM role that you grant to your user account.
    18.

Create a Cloud Storage bucket

Create a Cloud Storage bucket to hold the live stream manifest and segment files.

  • Create a Cloud Storage bucket and configure it as follows:
    • Set the storage class to S (Standard).
    • Set the storage location to the following: US (United States).
    • Replace BUCKET_NAME with a unique bucket name. Don't include sensitive information in the bucket name because the bucket namespace is global and publicly visible. 
    gcloud storage buckets create gs://BUCKET_NAME --default-storage-class STANDARD --location US

    • Install an encoder

    To use the API, you need an encoder to generate input streams that the API processes.

    Install ffmpeg as this page covers how to use ffmpeg to generate input streams. You can install this in Cloud Shell using the following command.

    sudo apt install ffmpeg