Install the GCP gcloud cli tool

Ansible¶

todo

Containers¶

Ephemeral container¶

Create a volume¶

podman create volume gcloud-config

Pull the container image¶

podman pull gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:latest

Set an alias¶

alias 'gcloud=podman run --rm -it --entrypoint gcloud -v gcloud-config:/root/.config/gcloud:Z gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:latest'

Make the alias permanent:

echo "alias 'gcloud=podman run --rm -it --entrypoint gcloud -v gcloud-config:/root/.config/gcloud:Z gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:latest'" >> ~/.bashrc.d/cloud_aliases.sh

Initialize a configuration¶

gcloud init
gcloud auth login

Run commands¶

gcloud [ gcloud_command ]

podman volume create gcloud-config
podman run --rm -it -v gcloud-config:/root/.config/gcloud:Z docker.io/google/cloud-sdk:latest [ gcloud_command ]
podman run --rm -it -v gcloud-config:/root/.config/gcloud:Z docker.io/google/cloud-sdk:latest gcloud auth login

Compose file¶

mkdir -p ~/containers/cloud_computing/gcp/gcloud-sdk

# compose.yaml

services:
  gcloud:
    image: gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:latest
    container_name: gcloud-sdk
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true
    volumes:
      - gcloud-config:/root/.config/gcloud
    entrypoint: ["gcloud"]
    command: ["--help"]

volumes:
  gcloud-config:

podman-compose run --rm gcloud
podman-compose run --rm gcloud auth login

Install on Fedora desktop¶

sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo << EOM
[google-cloud-cli]
name=Google Cloud CLI
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el9-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOM
[google-cloud-cli]
name=Google Cloud CLI
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el9-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg

sudo dnf -y install google-cloud-cli