Your web-development company, established in the early 2000s and currently self-hosted, is in the process of migrating its web application from on-premises servers to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The application utilizes My-SQL as its database. You've determined that running the application on a Linux VM and connecting to a My-SQL instance on Cloud SQL is feasible. The security team has provided a service account with the necessary access rights for this migration. You are instructed to use this service account for connecting to Cloud SQL, instead of the default Compute Engine Service account. What steps should you take?