Re: Could not automatically determine credentials.

[EPS Dev-Team]

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The service account was created on Jul 17, 2017 for APP Engine Default Service Account. Downloaded the .json file some 2 years ago and never had a problem with it until recently. The downloaded(to local machine) .json file is still the target for GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS variable. 

However, I see auto generated credentials file(application_default_credentials.json) when I do "gcloud auth application-default login". But the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS variable still refers to the downloaded(2 yrs ago) .json file and not the auto generated credentials.

I did not have to do "gcloud auth application-default login" before, I think this is a new step and that may be generating a new .json credentials file thats causing the disruption.

Any ideas what I should be doing?


On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 11:44:32 AM UTC-7, EPS Dev-Team wrote:

I have set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL env variable to a path on my local machine.

Deployed the flex app that uses Django. The application runs fine for 6 hours approx. I see the following exception afterwards:

LOG TRACE:

{

insertId: "m90qw3t62w08eghn1" 

labels: {…} 

logName: "projects/<company>/logs/appengine.googleapis.com%2Fstdout" 

receiveTimestamp: "2019-09-11T16:57:06.769920232Z" 

resource: {

labels: {…} 

type: "gae_app" 

}

textPayload: "Exception: Could not automatically determine credentials. Please set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS or explicitly create credentials and re-run the application. For more information, please see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started " 

timestamp: "2019-09-11T16:57:02Z" 

}

ERROR TRACE:

google.auth.exceptions.DefaultCredentialsError: Could not automatically determine credentials. Please set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS or explicitly create credentials and re-run the application. For more information, please see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started 

1. 1. at default (/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/auth/_default.py:317)
   2. at _determine_default_project (/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/cloud/_helpers.py:179)
   3. at _determine_default_project (/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/cloud/datastore/client.py:75)
   4. at _determine_default (/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/cloud/datastore/client.py:222)
   5. at __init__ (/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/cloud/client.py:169)
   6. at __init__ (/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/cloud/client.py:215)
   7. at __init__ (/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/google/cloud/datastore/client.py:205)

I was under the impression that the deployed app will have access to the datastore and its entities. Even with the above exception, the entities seem to be getting updated somehow - probably intermittent. 

Do I have to set the credentials separately on the cloud?

[Elliott (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello,

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[EPS Dev-Team]

Thank you.

I'm working with the cloud support team to identify the issue.