mdaffin / gcp-auth-example

Google Service Auth Example

A simple example/demo to show how to load google service account credentials from the environment.

• From Environment Variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS.
• From the google cloud sdk (not working).
• From google app engine (incomplete).
• From google compute engine (incomplete).

Resources/documentation:

• Python implmentation: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-auth-library-python/blob/master/google/auth/_default.py
• Compute metadata: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata