gcloud auth application-default login and switch accounts

[E. S.]

Hello,

Is it a best practice to always generate the application_default_credentials.json file every time switching GCP accounts?

I'm currently working on 2 GCP accounts one is for the company and the other is personal.

Thanks!

Erlou Miguel 

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Erlou, 

It would be easier to simply use incognito windows, one for the private account, the other for company. In such a scenario, there is no need to switch accounts all the time. If you use Chrome Browser, you can get an incognito window from the top-right three-dots window, or by using key combination Ctrl+Shift+N.  

If you work from Cloud SDKs command-line interface, you can create multiple project configurations using the "gcloud config configurations create" command. Once you create your new configuration, you can switch between configurations with gcloud config configurations activate. You may read more detail in various web tutorials, for instance Working with multiple environments in gcloud CLI.