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Authentication

  1. Run gcloud auth list to check if you have authenticated to gcloud already and what email was used.
  2. Run gcloud auth login to login with the right email id. cross check with step 1 when done.
  3. Run gcloud auth application-default login to set up default application credentials.
  4. Step 3 will create a json file with credentials, you should run export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$HOME/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json after cross checking if the file exists and is in the correct path which is typically $HOME/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json

Initialize project etc

  1. gcloud config set project k8s-infra-sandbox-capg to set the correct project for operations

Creating a scratch VM for trying things out

  1. gcloud compute instances create my-first-instance --image-family ubuntu-2004-lts --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud --zone us-central1-a

(if you need a bigger box (MORE COSTLY!) you can add --machine-type n1-standard-4 described here https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines )

SSH into the box

  1. gcloud compute ssh my-first-instance --zone us-central1-a

Cleanup

  1. gcloud compute instances delete my-first-instance --zone us-central1-a
  2. gcloud compute instances list to confirm if the vm went away.

Running image builder on the VM (WORK IN PROGRESS!! Don't use yet)

  1. sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential unzip to install a bunch of pre-requisites
  2. git clone https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder to fetch the image builder repository
  3. Run through all the steps in the Authentication section above, make sure GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS is set correctly.
  4. export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/image-builder/images/capi/.local/bin
  5. export GCP_PROJECT_ID=k8s-infra-sandbox-capg
  6. cd $HOME/image-builder/images/capi
  7. make deps-gce
  8. make build-gce-all

Simplified steps borrowed from https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder/blob/master/images/capi/scripts/ci-gce-nightly.sh

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dims commented Oct 26, 2021

thanks @cpanato updated the gist!

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