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Skaffold error using VSCode and Google Cloud SDK on Windows 11

I am using:

  • Windows 11
  • VS Code
  • Google Cloud SDK 486.0.0 with Skaffold 2.11.1

I have the stupidest of errors and cannot figure it out. It's worth noting this worked 6 months ago. I haven't touched it since, and now it doesn't work...

Retrieving builders.
Getting Gcloud Login State.
Using current GCP Project "abc"
Checking Cloud Run API status.
Getting Cloud Run Services for project "abc".
Executing Skaffold build.
Running skaffold command: cmd.exe /c C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin\skaffold.exe init --artifact {"image":"gcr.io/abc/authzen-xacml-interop","builder":"Docker","payload":{"path":"Dockerfile"}} --skip-deploy --filename C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\Temp\cloud-code-cloud-run-QG2PY1\skaffold.yaml --force
'C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\Google\Cloud' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Failed to build the app. Error: Failed to create skaffold configuration. Error: 'C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\Google\Cloud' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Obviously, the whitespace is an issue. In Windows, if you do not wrap the command in double quotes" it considers the value as 2 values so the error makes sense. But the question is why? I am using the extension provided by Google and I cannot find any setting that would let me control its behavior. Short of reinstalling on a path that has no whitespace, what can I do?

VS Code Cloud Code Extension

Solution

  • heres what I did, my lazy fix. renamed "Cloud SDK" to "Cloud". went into "AppData\Local\Google\Cloud\google-cloud-sdk" and ran install.bat.

    then under windows user variables edit path to have an entry for " C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Cloud\google-cloud-sdk\bin"

    windows is retarded that you have to put spaces in quotes. Use command "gcloud info" after install.bat to check the gcloud installation path name is accurate without the spaces now.