What is gcloud Auth login?
Authorizes access and performs other common Cloud SDK setup steps. gcloud auth login. Authorizes access only. During authorization, these commands obtain account credentials from Google Cloud and store them on the local system. The specified account becomes the active account in your Cloud SDK configuration.
How do I log into my gcloud service account?
- Create a service account with GCP console.
- Download the json key file.
- Create a role and assign proper required permissions to the role.
- gcloud config set account [email protected].
- gcloud auth activate-service-account — key-file=gcli.json — project=someprojectname.
How do I authenticate gcloud command line?
Authorization and authentication
- Install the gcloud command line tool.
- Authenticate to your service account. In the following command, replace ${KEY_FILE} with the path to your service account key file: ...
- Use your service account to obtain an authorization token: gcloud auth print-access-token.
Where is my gcloud Auth file?
This obtains your credentials and stores them in ~/. config/gcloud/ . Now you can run gcloud commands from your terminal and it will find your credentials automatically.