GCLOUD-KUBECTL Docker image

This image contains gcloud sdk with kubectl installed.

How to use this image

Create a service-account and API key

To create and download a Service Account you can visit https://console.developers.google.com/, and then on the left-hand menu click ‘API & Services’, then ‘Credentials’, then ‘New credentials’, then select ‘Service account key’. Create a new service account, give it a name, make sure it’s in the JSON format, then click ‘Create’. This will download the Service Account JSON file.

Secret management

Encode the service account JSON file as base64 with:

base64 <your-service-account.json>

then pass it as GCLOUD_SERVICE_KEY_BASE64 env variable.

Or, if you prefer to work with volumes or copy mount this file as /secret.json in the container.

Configure the container

• GCLOUD_SDK: version of gcloud sdk like 175.0.0
• GCLOUD_PROJECT: gcloud project name
• GKE_CLUSTER: google container engine cluster id.
• ZONE: gcloud zone, e.g. europe-west1-b
• GCLOUD_SERVICE_KEY_BASE64: base64 encoded secret.json file