README_GCE.md 1.7 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. The gce service key looks something like this: os302gce-ef83bd90f2.p12 .. the ef83bd90f2 part is the public hash
  2. Be in the same directory as the p12 key file.
  3. The commands below should be copy / paste-able
  4. 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 os302gce-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.p12 -passin pass:notasecret -nodes -nocerts | openssl rsa -out os302gce-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.pem

# Move the converted service key to the .ssh dir mv os302gce-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.pem ~/.ssh

# Set a sym link so it is easy to reference ln -s ~/.ssh/os302gce-${GCE_KEY_HASH}.pem ~/.ssh/os302gce_priv_key.pem


1. Once this is done, put the original service key file (os302gce-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).



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 ```