The Google GCE cloud and Juju¶
This document describes details specific to using your existing Google GCE cloud with Juju.
See more: Google GCE
When using this cloud with Juju, it is important to keep in mind that it is a (1) machine cloud and (2) not some other cloud.
See more: Cloud differences
As the differences related to (1) are already documented generically in the rest of the docs, here we record just those that follow from (2).
Requirements:¶
Permissions: Service Account Key Admin, Compute Instance Admin, and Compute Security Admin.
See more: Google | Compute Engine IAM roles and permissions.
Notes on juju add-cloud¶
Type in Juju: gce
Name in Juju: google
Notes on juju add-credential¶
Authentication types¶
oauth2¶
Attributes:
client-id: client ID (required)
client-email: client e-mail address (required)
private-key: client secret (required)
project-id: project ID (required)
jsonfile¶
Attributes:
file: path to the .json file containing a service account key for your project Path (required)
If you want to use environment variables:¶
CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION
- GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<link to JSON credentials file>
Cloud-specific model configuration keys¶
base-image-path¶
Base path to look for machine disk images.
type |
string |
default value |
schema.omit{} |
immutable |
false |
mandatory |
false |