GCE Auth for Packer running in docker

[da...@pex.com]

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

[Rickard von Essen]

How credentials for GCE is loaded is described here https://packer.io/docs/builders/googlecompute.html#precedence-of-authentication-methods

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[da...@pex.com]

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