The Google GCE cloud and Juju¶

This document describes details specific to using your existing Google GCE cloud with Juju.

When using this cloud with Juju, it is important to keep in mind that it is a (1) machine cloud and (2) not some other cloud.

See more: Cloud differences

As the differences related to (1) are already documented generically in the rest of the docs, here we record just those that follow from (2).

Requirements:¶

Permissions: Service Account Key Admin, Compute Instance Admin, and Compute Security Admin.
See more: Google | Compute Engine IAM roles and permissions .

Notes on `juju add-cloud`¶

Type in Juju: gce

Name in Juju: google

Notes on `juju add-credential`¶

Authentication types¶

`oauth2`¶

Attributes:

client-id: client ID (required)
client-email: client e-mail address (required)
private-key: client secret (required)
project-id: project ID (required)

`jsonfile`¶

Attributes:

file: path to the .json file containing a service account key for your project Path (required)

If you want to use environment variables:¶

CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION

- GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<link to JSON credentials file>

Cloud-specific model configuration keys¶

base-image-path¶

Base path to look for machine disk images.


type	string
default value	schema.omit{}
immutable	false
mandatory	false

Supported constraints¶

CONSTRAINT
conflicting:	`instance-type` vs. `[arch, cores, cpu-power, mem]`
supported?
- allocate-public-ip	✓
- arch	✓
- container	✓
- cores	✓
- cpu-power	✓
- image-id	✕
- instance-role	✕
- instance-type	✓
- mem	✓
- root-disk	✓
- root-disk-source	✕
- spaces	✕
- tags	✕
- virt-type	✕
- zones	✓

Supported placement directives¶

PLACEMENT DIRECTIVE
<machine>	TBA
subnet=<subnet>	✕
system-id=<system ID>	✕
zone=<zone>	✓

Cloud-specific storage providers¶

See first: Storage provider

`gce`¶

Configuration options:

type. Value is pd-ssd. Warning: bug .