Google Cloud Platform

Permissions listed here are permission required by the Kubermatic machine-controller. Terraform, and components deployed by KubeOne (such as external cloud-controller-manager) might require additional permissions.

Compute Engine API

For the access to the Compute Engine API it has to be enabled at the Google APIs console.

User Roles

The user for the Google Service Account that has to be created has to have three roles:

Compute Admin: roles/compute.admin
Service Account User: roles/iam.serviceAccountUser
Viewer: roles/viewer

If the gcloud CLI is installed, a service account can be created like follow:

# create new service account
gcloud iam service-accounts create k8c-cluster-provisioner

# get your service account id
gcloud iam service-accounts list
# get your project id
gcloud projects list

# create policy binding
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding YOUR_PROJECT_ID --member 'serviceAccount:YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID' --role='roles/compute.admin'
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding YOUR_PROJECT_ID --member 'serviceAccount:YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID' --role='roles/iam.serviceAccountUser'
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding YOUR_PROJECT_ID --member 'serviceAccount:YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID' --role='roles/viewer'

Google Service Account

A Google Service Account for the platform has to be created, see Creating and managing service accounts. The result is a JSON file containing the fields

type
project_id
private_key_id
private_key
client_email
client_id
auth_uri
token_uri
auth_provider_x509_cert_url
client_x509_cert_url

The private key is BASE64 containing the newlines as non-escaped strings "\n". So to avoid the resulting troubles the machine controller expects the whole service account encoded in BASE64.

# create a new json key for your service account
gcloud iam service-accounts keys create --iam-account YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT k8c-cluster-provisioner-sa-key.json
# create base64 encoded secret
base64 -w 0 ./k8c-cluster-provisioner-sa-key.json

Passing the Google Service Account

The base64 encoded secret of the service account will passed in the field serviceAccount of the cloudProviderSpec of the machine deployment.