Requirements

• python3.6 or newer

• python3-distutils

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• GCP SDK CLI

• kubectl

• You are authenticated and have the necessary permissions in your GCP project. If working on a newly created GCP instance, this likely requires running the command gcloud auth login.

  • GCP permissions

    • GKE: to manage a kubernetes cluster on which to run ElasticBLAST.

    • GCS: to store results and query splits.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• You have AWS credentials available and have the necessary IAM permissions, which include the following AWS services:

  • Batch

  • EC2

  • ECS

  • S3

Tips for GCP

1. To check the GCP permissions with the Cloud Console, visit the URLs below and ensure that the API is enabled.

   • https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/storage-component.googleapis.com/overview

   • https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/container.googleapis.com/overview

2. If you are working on Debian or Ubuntu Linux distribution and have root permissions, you can install kubectl and python-distutils as follows:

sudo apt-get -y -m update
sudo apt-get install -yq kubectl python3-distutils