dwdraju/alpine-gcloud repository overview

⁠LightWeight Docker image for the Google Cloud SDK

• Image based on alpine linux
• Minimal Docker image for gcloud

⁠Usage Guide

Pull this image Docker Hub:

docker pull dwdraju/alpine-gcloud:latest

⁠Browser Authentication

To authenticate the gcloud sdk docker image using browser authentication, run

docker run -ti --name gsdocker dwdraju/alpine-gcloud gcloud auth login

⁠Service Account Authentication

• Create service account from IAM & admin
• Download the key file in json format and paste it on service-account-key.json
• Give permission to the service account as per requirement
• Get the *GCLOUD_PROJECT_ID- and set it as environment variable: export GCLOUD_PROJECT_ID=myprojectID
• Run the command:

docker run -ti -v $(pwd)/service-account-key.json:/service-account-key.json --name gcdocker dwdraju/alpine-gcloud gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=/service-account-key.json  --project "$GCLOUD_PROJECT_ID" --quiet

Additional flags like ACCOUNT_NAME, --prompt-for-password can be used during authentication. Full list is on Cloud SDK doc⁠

⁠Usage

The docker image can be used to access resources in google cloud as bounded by IAM permission using the volume. To list the container clusters:

docker run --rm -ti --volumes-from gcdocker dwdraju/alpine-gcloud gcloud container clusters list