Detect Google Cloud Project Id from a container in Google hosted Kubernetes cluster

Question

Detect Google Cloud Project Id from a container in Google hosted Kubernetes cluster.

When connecting to BigTable; I need to provide the Google Project Id. Is there a way to detect this automatically from within K8s?

Answer 1

Google has some libraries for this too: ServiceOptions.getDefaultProjectId

https://googleapis.github.io/google-cloud-java/google-cloud-clients/index.html

https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/blob/master/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-core/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/ServiceOptions.java

https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/master/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-core