# DSS in GCP[¶](https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/latest/cloud/gcp/index.html#dss-in-gcp "Permalink to this headline")

DSS features deep integration with multiple GCP services:

* Connecting to GCS data

* Connecting to Google Cloud SQL

* Connecting to BigQuery, including fast copy between GCS and BigQuery

* Leveraging Dataproc, including dynamically-managed Dataproc clusters

* Leveraging GKE, including dynamically-managed GKE clusters

* Reference architecture: managed compute on GKE and storage on GCS

+ Overview

+ Security

+ Main steps

- Prepare the instance

- Install DSS

- Setup containerized execution configuration in DSS

- Setup Spark and metastore in DSS

- Setup GCS connections

- Install GKE plugin

- Create your first cluster

- Use your cluster
