Introduction

The purpose of this script is to create a configuration file for the Cromwell execution engine to run on Google Cloud. For more information see the Cromwell documentation.

You can use this script to create a configuration file for an existing Google Project or it will prompt you for your Google Billing Account to create a new Google Project.

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7
• Google Billing Project
  • This is the billing account which will be charged for storage and compute when you store files in the Google Bucket and run pipelines on Google Compute Engine
• Set the Application Default Credentials
  • To do this, run $ gcloud auth application-default login

Pre-installation script

Run the following command to install the prerequisites for running the installation script:

$ python setup.py install

If you have both Python 2 and Pythong 3 installed, you may need to use $ python2 setup.py install.

Run installation script

Run the following script to walk through the steps of setting up a configuration file for Cromwell.

$ python create_google_config.py