mathieu-bour/setup-gcloud

Install the Google Cloud SDK in your GitHub Actions workflow.

This action is not supported by Google Cloud.

Proudly maintained by Mathieu Bour, former Vice-CTO @mathrix-education.

Announcements

2020/11/20: The GoogleCloudPlatform official GitHub organization has deprecated the setup-gcloud action. @google-github-actions/setup-gcloud should be used instead for comparison.

2019/01/27: The GoogleCloudPlatform official GitHub organization has released an official setup-gcloud action. Compared to Edutech's one, we provide some additional automation tasks, such as project id discovery and automatic Docker Configuration.

Acknowledgements

This action was initially developed for Education Media SA. The repository is now maintained by @mathieu-bour.

Motivations

Since the advent of GitHub Actions, Edutech Media SA has chosen to migrate from Google Cloud Build to this new compilation system.

If the official @actions/gcloud action works perfectly, the fact that it is in two parts (auth and cli) and that it is based on Docker makes it slow and not very suitable for launching multiple commands.

So we chose to create a JavaScript action to fix this problem, also adding additional features, such as Docker authentication with Google Cloud Container Registry.

Usage

Supported operating systems

This action currently supports Ubuntu, Mac-OS and Windows based systems. The supported operating system matrix is the following:

Operating system	Status
ubuntu-16.04
ubuntu-18.04 (ubuntu-latest)
ubuntu-20.04
macos-10.15 (macos-latest)
windows-2019 (windows-latest)

Inputs

Name	Type	Default value
version	'latest' / local / string	'latest'
service-account-key	string (base64)	''
project	'auto' / 'none' / string	'auto'
components	string	''
configure-docker	'true' / 'false' / string	'false'

version

If you need a precise version of the Google Cloud SDK, you may provide this input. By default, the latest version of the Google Cloud SDK will be downloaded. We strongly advise you to do so since using the latest version may break your workflow if Google release a breaking version. If you prefer using the pre-installed Google Cloud SDK (ubuntu only), you may use local.

service-account-key

To authenticate the SDK, you may provide a base64-encoded service account JSON key. In order to secure you workflow, use GitHub Actions secrets.

project

By default, if you provide a service-account-key, the action will use it to determine which is the default project.

• If you want to specify a different project (for example, in case of cross-project interaction), you may explicitly specify your project ID here.
• If you want to disable the project configuration and provide your project ID later in your workflow, set this input to 'none'.

components

If you want to install additional SDK components (for example: beta or gsutil), you may provide them in this input as a comma-separated list.

configure-docker

If you want to push an image to the Google Container Registry, you may authenticate the Docker agent. Use 'true' to authenticate against all the *.gcr.io registries, or comma-separated Artifacts Registries.

Examples

See action.yml for details.

Minimum configuration

- uses: mathieu-bour/setup-gcloud@main  # WARNING: se the latest stable version instead!

By default, the minimal example will install the latest Google Cloud SDK. Because no service account key was provided you will have to authenticate the SDK yourself (for example, with gcloud auth activate-service-account).

Typical CI configuration

- name: Setup Google Cloud SDK
  uses: mathieu-bour/setup-gcloud@1.3.0
  with:
    service-account-key: ${{ secrets.GCLOUD_AUTH }} # base64-encoded service account JSON key
    confgure-docker: true

In this example, you provide a service account key. The action automatically download the latest version of the SDK and authenticates using your key.

Then using the field "project_id" of your key, we will set the default project using gcloud config set project {project}, so you do not have to do it later.

Finally, because you may want to build a Docker image and upload it to the Google Container Registry, the action will configure Docker to allow the upload of your image. Make sure the service account has the correct rights to write on the bucket linked to the registry.