Hi Rickard, Thanks for the reply. I have been through that page, and I've tried those various ways to setup auth. As it turned out I was using a very old version of packer from Debian stretch repos. As soon as I grabbed the newest version I was able to see that I needed to add the service account user to my users IAM. After that it works as expected using the environmental vars to point to the service account key file.
-Dave On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 2:11:24 PM UTC-8, Rickard von Essen wrote: > > How credentials for GCE is loaded is described here > https://packer.io/docs/builders/googlecompute.html#precedence-of-authentication-methods > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, 18:19 <[email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm trying to get GCE Authentication working with packer inside a docker >> container. Currently, I'm creating a build container based on Debian 9.4 >> and to this container I add packer and gcloud. The installs go fine as >> does the gcloud init. But, the only way I get 'packer build' commands to >> succeed is if I use -var account_file=path/to/my/service_account.json on >> the command line too. I'd like to set things up in my container to not >> require passing the account file location in on command line or to hard >> code the path to the file in my packer.json config file. I know this is >> possible, as it works on my laptop and other places, but for some reason >> not in docker. Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> Dave >> >> -- >> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >> violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing >> list. >> >> GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues >> IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Packer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/9b8e5d66-5e71-4884-9af8-03a92a99980e%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/9b8e5d66-5e71-4884-9af8-03a92a99980e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/2d0e1369-c355-4350-aa62-7e1fb7c35837%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
