README_GCE.md 2.2 KB

GCE Setup Instructions

Get a gce service key

  1. ask your GCE project administrator for a GCE service key

Note: If your GCE project does not show a Service Account under /APIs & auth/Credentials, you will need to use "Create new Client ID" to create a Service Account.

Convert a GCE service key into a pem (for ansible)

  1. mkdir -p ~/.gce
  2. The gce service key looks something like this: projectname-ef83bd90f2.p12 .. the ef83bd90f2 part is the public hash
  3. Be in the same directory as the p12 key file.
  4. The commands below should be copy / paste-able
  5. Run these commands: ```

    Temporarily set hash variable

    export GCE_KEY_HASH=ef83bd90f2

# Convert the service key (note: 'notasecret' is literally what we want here) openssl pkcs12 -in projectname-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.p12 -passin pass:notasecret -nodes -nocerts | openssl rsa -out projectname-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.pem

# Move the converted service key to the .gce dir mv projectname-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.pem ~/.gce

# Set a sym link so it is easy to reference ln -s ~/.gce/projectname-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.pem ~/.gce/projectname_priv_key.pem


1. Once this is done, put the original service key file (projectname-ef83bd90f261.p12) somewhere safe, or delete it (your call, I don not know what else we will use it for, and we can always regen it if needed).


Create a secrets.py file for GCE
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1. vi ~/.gce/secrets.py
1. make the contents look like this:

GCE_PARAMS = ('long...@developer.gserviceaccount.com', '/full/path/to/projectname_priv_key.pem') GCE_KEYWORD_PARAMS = {'project': 'my_project_id'}

1. Setup a sym link so that gce.py will pick it up (must be in same dir as gce.py)

cd openshift-online-ansible/inventory/gce ln -s ~/.gce/secrets.py secrets.py



Install Dependencies
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1. Ansible requires libcloud for gce operations:

yum install -y ansible python-libcloud



Test The Setup
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1. cd li-ops/cloud
2. Try to list all instances:

./cloud.rb gce list


3. Try to create an instance:

./cloud.rb gce launch -n ${USER}-minion1 -e int --type os3-minion ```