# How to set up GE in Google's Cloud Composer environment?

**URL:** https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-set-up-ge-in-googles-cloud-composer-environment/954
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**Tags:** airflow, how-to, help-wanted
**Created:** [December 16, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-set-up-ge-in-googles-cloud-composer-environment/954 "2021-12-16T12:14:15Z")
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### Author: ![Rafal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@Rafal](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/Rafal)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-set-up-ge-in-googles-cloud-composer-environment/954/1 "2021-12-16T12:14:15Z")

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Hi all  
I have spent an entire day now on trying to figure out how to install GE in the Google Cloud so that I could run my GE data validation tasks via DAGs in the Cloud Composer. I found that recommended way of doing it would be via airflow-provider-great-expectations but this is where ‘clarity’ ends and I cannot figure out how to set up the rest of the process. I am going to ask questions in a bullet point format:

- I assume that airflow-provider-great-expectations needs to be installed as Pypi package of the Cloud Composer environment, is that corect?
- If the above is true, do I also need to install GE as another Pypi package? (I read that GE is installed as a dependency whenever airflow-provider-great-expectations is installed)
- I found that GE folders and files need to be made available to Airflow DAGs so how do I make this happen? Do I need to make another installation of GE (on top of already installed dependency to the airflow-provider-great-expectations) on my local machine and then manually transfer all the files and directories to Google Cloud Storage that is available to Airflow DAGs?