When ever I run my packer template, it complains about this account which I have no idea where it is coming from.
Packer template:
{
"builders": [
{
"type": "googlecompute",
"account_file": "/Users/Joe/Downloads/account.json",
"project_id": "rare-truck-123456",
"source_image": "centos-7-v20180129",
"zone": "us-west1-a",
"ssh_username": "centos"
}
]
}
Error:
➜ packer git:(master) ✗ packer build release_google_image.json
googlecompute output will be in this color.
==> googlecompute: Checking image does not exist...
==> googlecompute: Creating temporary SSH key for instance...
==> googlecompute: Using image: centos-7-v20180129
==> googlecompute: Creating instance...
googlecompute: Loading zone: us-west1-a
googlecompute: Loading machine type: n1-standard-1
googlecompute: Loading network: default
googlecompute: Requesting instance creation...
googlecompute: Waiting for creation operation to complete...
==> googlecompute: Error creating instance: 1 error(s) occurred:
==> googlecompute:
==> googlecompute: * The resource '123412341234-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com' of type 'serviceAccount' was not found.
Build 'googlecompute' errored: Error creating instance: 1 error(s) occurred:
* The resource '123412341234-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com' of type 'serviceAccount' was not found.
==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> googlecompute: Error creating instance: 1 error(s) occurred:
* The resource '123412341234-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com' of type 'serviceAccount' was not found.
==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
Why is it trying to use 123412341234-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com?
I created a service account with compute admin v1 permissions under my project in google cloud and I downloaded my json file and renamed it to accounts.json. The name of that service account is different (release-builder@rare-truck-123456.iam.gserviceaccount.com), but packer seems to ignore it and go after some strange account.
Even my cli command gcloud info gives back the right service account:
Google Cloud SDK [188.0.1]
Platform: [Mac OS X, x86_64] ('Darwin', 'Alexs-MacBook-Pro.local', '16.7.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jan 11 22:59:40 PST 2018; root:xnu-3789.73.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64', 'x86_64', 'i386')
Python Version: [2.7.14 (default, Sep 25 2017, 09:53:22) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37)]]
Python Location: [/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python]
Site Packages: [Disabled]
Installation Root: [/Users/Joe/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk]
Installed Components:
core: [2018.02.08]
gsutil: [4.28]
bq: [2.0.28]
System PATH: [/Users/Joe/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin]
Python PATH: [/Users/Joe/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/lib/third_party:/Users/Joe/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/lib:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload]
Cloud SDK on PATH: [True]
Kubectl on PATH: [False]
Installation Properties: [/Users/Joe/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/properties]
User Config Directory: [/Users/Joe/.config/gcloud]
Active Configuration Name: [default]
Active Configuration Path: [/Users/Joe/.config/gcloud/configurations/config_default]
Account: [release-builder@rare-truck-123456.iam.gserviceaccount.com]
Project: [rare-truck-123456]
Current Properties:
[core]
project: [rare-truck-123456]
account: [release-builder@rare-truck-123456.iam.gserviceaccount.com]
disable_usage_reporting: [True]
[compute]
region: [us-west1]
zone: [us-west1-a]
Logs Directory: [/Users/Joe/.config/gcloud/logs]
Last Log File: [/Users/Joe/.config/gcloud/logs/2018.02.09/15.51.18.911677.log]
git: [git version 2.14.3 (Apple Git-98)]
ssh: [OpenSSH_7.4p1, LibreSSL 2.5.0]
Google Compute Engine instances use default services account to have a better integration with Google Platform.
As you can read on the documentation [1]: "(...)If the user will be managing virtual machine instances that are configured to run as a service account, you must also grant the roles/iam.serviceAccountActor role."
You need to add the role "Service Account User" to your service account in order to be able to create Google Compute Engine instances.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles#compute_name_short_roles