I did some training with qwicklabs.
Each time I ran commands from my local computer using terminal.
First was gcloud init.
In the first steps there are suggestions to use defined accounts or add new.
After completing some of the labs there are a lot of old users, which I would like to remove.
Is it possible to remove them?
I use windows but can not find configuration/cache file.
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In order to remove an account from the auth list, you should use the gcloud auth revoke command.
For example:
gcloud auth revoke student-00-d4029f1bd014#qwiklabs.net
To verify this is working, instead of typing gcloud init, you can use gcloud auth list to list all the accounts whose credentials have been obtained using gcloud init, gcloud auth login and gcloud auth activate-service-account.
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I would like to know whether it is possible to attached a service account created in my-project-a to a Google Compute Engine instance in say my-project-b?
The following command:
gcloud beta compute instances create my-instance \
--service-account=my-service-account#my-project-a.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
--scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform \
--project=my-project-b
gives me the following error:
(gcloud.beta.compute.instances.create) Could not fetch resource:
- The user does not have access to service account 'my-service-account#my-project-a.iam.gserviceaccount.com'. User: 'me#mysite.com'. Ask a project owner to grant you the iam.serviceAccountUser role on the service account. me#mysite.com is my account and I'm the owner of the org.
Not sure whether this is related, but looking at the UI (in my-project-b) there is no option to add a service account from any other projects. I was hoping to be able to add the account my-service-account#my-project-a.iam.gserviceaccount.com
You could follow these steps to authenticate a service account from my-project-a to an instance in my-project-b:
Create a service account in my-project-a with the proper role for compute engine
Download the JSON file.
Copy the my-project-a new service account email
On my-project-b, add a team member by using the copied email from the previous step
Connect via SSH to your instance in my-project-b
Copy the JSON file from the step 2 on your my-project-b instance
Run the following command to activate the service account:
gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=YOUR_JSON_FILE
Verify by using the following command:
gcloud auth list
Is it possible to give a Google Compute Engine instance permission to delete itself without also giving it permission to delete other instances?
That is, I'd like instance name ABC to be able to run:
gcloud compute instances delete ABC
using it's own name, ABC, but no other name.
From the delete instance API docs, to delete any instance in the project you have to have:
compute.instances.delete permission
One of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute or https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform OAuth scope.
Which seems to me that you either have permission to delete any instance in the project or none at all.
No, the service account that assigned to the instance it's running the gcloud command not the instance.
Permissions are granted by setting policies that grant roles to a user, group, or service account as a member of your project.
Example: The role "compute Instance Admin" can create, modify, and delete virtual machine instances, that's means all the instances in your project. You cannot specify for a specific instance.
The gcloud command below can be applied for the ABC instance or any other instances in your project.
gcloud compute instances delete ABC --zone <zone>
The permission compute.instances.delete is in these roles:
Compute Admin
Compute Instance Admin
Project Editor
Project Owner
You can as well create a custom Role that have mixed permissions and assign it to a service account that will, but you need to be sure that you set every permission required for the action.
Scopes is to Select the type and level of API access that you grant grant to the VM.
By Default: read-only access to Storage and Service Management, write access to Stackdriver Logging and Monitoring, read/write access to Service Control
But you can select which Cloud APIs that the VM I mean the service account can access.
MacBook-Air-2:~ Owner$ gcloud sql instances describe ahaha-mysql
ERROR: (gcloud.sql.instances.describe) There was no instance found at projects/ahaha-20180621/instances/ahaha-mysql or you are not authorized to access it.
You will need to enable permission for the compute instance to access the cloud sql
Stop the instance
Edit the instance and change the Cloud API access scopes
Enable Cloud SQL
Restart the instance
run gcloud auth login and authenticate as yourself by following the link (you might need to fix it in a text editor) and entering the verification code.
run gcloud sql instances describe ahaha-mysql this should now work
I'm trying to set up read/write access to a Cloud Storage bucket from a GCE instance, using a service account, but don't get the permissions. I have done the following:
Created service account, let's say 'my-sa'
Created a bucket, let's say 'my-bucket'
In IAM console for my project, assign role 'Cloud Storage admin' to service account
Created a new GCE instance via the console, assigned to service account 'my-sa'. Access scope is then automatically set to cloud-platform
Connect to instance using gcloud compute ssh as my user (project owner)
Run gsutil ls gs://my-bucket
Expected behaviour: get list of items in bucket
Observed behaviour:
gsutil takes about 5 seconds to think, then gives:
AccessDeniedException: 403 my-sa#my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket my-bucket.
Things I've tried:
gcloud auth list on the instance does show the service account, and shows it as being active
I've added more permissions to the service account (up to project owner), doesn't make a difference
I also can't use other permissions from the instance. When I give Compute Engine Admin role to the service account, I can't run gcloud compute instances list from the instance
I've removed the .gsutil dir to make sure the cache is cleared
With the default Compute Engine service account, I can list the buckets, but not write (as expected). When I add the Cloud Storage read/write access scope from the console, I can also write
I really don't have a clue on how to debug this anymore, so any help would be much apprreciated
I'm trying to do gcloud init on my fresh GCE instance using a service account that I've created in the Developers Console. In the Developers Console, I see a few service accounts under Permissions, which I can't generate private key files for; I also see a service account that I made under Service accounts which I can get private keys for.
When I do gcloud init on the GCE instance, under "Pick credentials to use", I only see the service accounts in the Permissions tab (for which I don't have private keys). I'd like to use the service account that I have private keys for.
I can log in with my personal account for now, but this isn't scalable. Any advice?
You can use gcloud auth activate-service-account command to get credentials via the private key for a service account. For more information and example please visit this link.
Elaborating on #Kamaran's answer after further discussion.
The basic solution is to enable the service account on the GCE instance.
First use gcloud compute copy-files <private json key file> <instance name>:remote/path/to/key to copy the file to the remote instance. Then run gcloud auth activate-service-account <service account address> --key-file remote/path/to/key command on the remote. The new service account will then be available in the gcloud init menu.