# Prerequisites

Typically the DuploCloud onboarding team performs these steps in your GCP project with your permission. These steps need to be performed and are described in detail in the subsequent subsections: 

1. [Add Service Account, Key Creation, and Project](https://docs.duplocloud.com/docs/automation-platform/overview-1/prerequisites/service-account-setup) to the DuploCloud Portal. A single DuploCloud Portal supports multiple GCP projects. Each project is added to DuploCloud, and the DuploCloud platform gives access to the project via Service Account keys.
2. [Set up Cloud DNS Zone](https://docs.duplocloud.com/docs/automation-platform/overview-1/prerequisites/route-53-hosted-zone).
3. [Create Certificates](https://docs.duplocloud.com/docs/automation-platform/overview-1/prerequisites/certificate-for-load-balancer-and-ingress) for Load Balancers and Kubernetes Ingress.
4. [Perform initial Infrastructure and Tenant setup](https://docs.duplocloud.com/docs/automation-platform/overview-1/prerequisites/initial-infrastructure-setup).
5. Set up tools for the Tenant, such as [enabling `kubectl` shell.](https://docs.duplocloud.com/docs/automation-platform/overview-1/prerequisites/tools-tenant/enable-kubectl-shell) 

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For Kubernetes prerequisites, see the [DuploCloud Kubernetes User Guide](https://docs.duplocloud.com/docs/automation-platform/kubernetes-overview). 
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