Google Cloud CLI Docker

The Google Cloud CLI Docker Images (comprising the :latest, :slim, :alpine, :emulators, and :debian_component_based images located within this repository) are a set of images enabling the usage of the Google Cloud CLI as well as its bundled components.

The :latest tag is Debian-based and includes default command line tools of Google Cloud CLI (gcloud, gsutil, bq) as well several additional components.

Repositories

The Google Cloud CLI Docker Image is hosted on Container Registry.

The full repository name for Container Registry is gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli.

Supported tags

• :latest, :VERSION: (large image with additional components pre-installed, Debian-based)
• :slim, :VERSION-slim: (smaller image with no components pre-installed, Debian-based)
• :alpine, :VERSION-alpine: (smallest image with no additional components installed, Alpine-based)
• :debian_component_based, :VERSION-debian_component_based: (Similar to :latest but component installer based)
• :emulators, :VERSION: (as small as possible with all the emulators)

→ Check out Container Registry for available tags.

Usage

To use this image, pull from Container Registry and then run the following command:

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

Verify the install

docker run gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:latest gcloud version
Google Cloud CLI 368.0.0

or use a particular version number:

docker run gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:368.0.0 gcloud version

You can authenticate gcloud with your user credentials by running gcloud auth login:

docker run -ti --name gcloud-config gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli gcloud auth login

If you need to authenticate any program that uses the Google Cloud APIs, you need to pass the --update-adc option:

docker run -ti --name gcloud-config gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli gcloud auth login --update-adc

If you want to use a specific project for future uses, you can set this inside the gcloud-config container:

docker run -ti --name gcloud-config gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli /bin/bash -c 'gcloud auth login && gcloud config set project your-project'

Once you authenticate successfully, credentials are preserved in the volume of the gcloud-config container.

To list compute instances using these credentials, run the container with --volumes-from:

docker run --rm --volumes-from gcloud-config gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli gcloud compute instances list --project your_project
NAME        ZONE           MACHINE_TYPE   PREEMPTIBLE  INTERNAL_IP  EXTERNAL_IP      STATUS
instance-1  us-central1-a  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.2   8.34.219.29      RUNNING

⚠️ Warning: The gcloud-config container now has a volume containing your Google Cloud credentials. Do not use gcloud-config volume in other containers.

Alternatively, you can use auth/credential_file_override property to set a path to a mounted service account and then the config to read that using CLOUDSDK_CONFIG environment variable.

for example, mycloud configuration below has the auth/credential_file_override already set and points towards a certificate file that will be present within the container as a separate volume mount.

See issue#152

$ docker run -ti -e CLOUDSDK_CONFIG=/config/mygcloud \
                 -v `pwd`/mygcloud:/config/mygcloud \
                 -v `pwd`:/certs  gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:alpine /bin/bash

bash-4.4# gcloud config list
[auth]
credential_file_override = /certs/svc_account.json

bash-4.4# head -10  /certs/svc_account.json
{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "project_id1",
....

bash-4.4# gcloud projects list
PROJECT_ID           NAME         PROJECT_NUMBER
project_id1          GCPAppID     1071284184432

You can set any Cloud SDK property via an ENV, please read and here.

Components Installed in Each Tag

Installing additional components

Debian-based images

cd debian_slim/
docker build --build-arg CLOUD_SDK_VERSION=159.0.0 \
    --build-arg INSTALL_COMPONENTS="google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator" \
    -t my-cloud-sdk-docker:slim .

Alpine-based images

To install additional components for Alpine-based images, create a Dockerfile that uses the cloud-sdk image as the base image. For example, to add kubectl and app-engine-java components:

FROM gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:alpine
RUN apk --update add openjdk7-jre
RUN gcloud components install app-engine-java kubectl

and run:

docker build -t my-cloud-sdk-docker:alpine .

Note that in this case, you have to install dependencies of additional components manually.

Installing different version of gcloud sdk:

docker build -t my-cloud-sdk-docker:alpine --build-arg CLOUD_SDK_VERSION=<release_number> .

Legacy image (Google App Engine based)

The original image in this repository was based off of

FROM gcr.io/google_appengine/base

The full Dockerfile for that can be found here for archival as well as in image tag google/cloud-sdk-docker:legacy

Cloud SDK Release Tracking

You can also follow the Cloud SDK Release schedule here

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-cloud-sdk-announce

Support

The Google Cloud CLI Team works to ensure that the images within this repository provide fully functional installs of the Google Cloud CLI. This work includes addressing any bugs or issues that prevent the execution of the gcloud command line tool or components installed by default on each image. The team also works to ensure that third party packages necessary for the function of the Google Cloud CLI are using stable release versions, and that base OS images are updated to recent, stable releases in a timely manner.

For workflows separate from or unrelated to the execution of the Cloud CLI that require additional or different dependencies, the Cloud CLI team recommends creating your own image layer on top of the Cloud CLI Docker Image where you can remove and install dependencies as needed. The Cloud CLI Team will not address issues related to workflows or tools unrelated to the execution of the Google Cloud CLI. Similarly, the team will deny requests for additional packages or tooling unrelated to the intended functioning of the Google Cloud CLI.

Identifying Vulnerabilities

If you or your organization have detected vulnerabilities within any of the Cloud CLI Docker Images, please file a bug. Your bug must contain the type of each vulnerability and the exact location within the image where each is present. Vulnerabilities within base OS images will not be addressed beyond ensuring the Cloud CLI Docker images are using recent, stable releases of Debian or Alpine Linux.

Pinning version

Images tagged :latest, :alpine, :slim and :debian_component_based use the most recent version of Google Cloud SDK, which may change its behaviour in the future. List of components installed by default in each image can also change between versions. To avoid such changes breaking the tool you are using, it is not recommended to use these tags in any production tools directly. Instead use a particular version as listed in Supported tags and update it periodically.