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gcloud auth configure docker not working | 3 Solutions

Did you know that the credHelper entry is added to Docker’s configuration file by gcloud auth configure-docker?

Alternatively, the file is created if one doesn’t already exist.

By doing this, gcloud is set up as the credential helper for every Docker registry supported by Google.

Furthermore, a credHelper entry already present in the Docker configuration will be overridden.

Our experts would like to point out that docker and gcloud have to be on the same system PATH to function.

We can easily configure docker authentication after logging into gcloud, as seen here:

gcloud auth configure-docker

Additionally, we can configure docker authentication with Container Registry as seen below:

gcloud auth configure-docker gcr.io

However, in some cases, we can run into trouble with gcloud auth configure-docker.

The error message suggests creating a symbolic link (symlink) for docker-credential-gcloud to /usr/local/bin.

Our experts came up with 3 solutions:

• Solution 1:Create Symlink for docker-credential-gcloud
  1. First, locate docker-credential-gcloud in the Snap package at /snap/google-cloud-sdk/current/bin/.
  2. Then, create a symlink with this command:

     sudo ln -s /snap/google-cloud-sdk/curent/bin/docker-credential-gcloud /usr/local/bin
  3. After creating the symlink, we can push Docker images to GCR.
• Solution 2: Reinstall Snap package for google-cloud-sdk
  1. We have to remove the Snap package for google-cloud-sdk and reinstall it as seen here:

     sudo snap remove google-cloud-sdk
curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash

  2. Furthermore, make sure to reconnect to our virtual machine after reinstalling the SDK.
• Solution 3: Ensure Permissions

  If issues persist, it may be because the account does not have the needed permissions to store or write the Docker image to GCR.

  In that case, we have to grant needed permissions to the account.

By following these steps, we will be able to resolve the error and push Docker images to the Google Container Registry.

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Conclusion

In brief, our Support Experts demonstrated what to do if gcloud auth configure docker is not working.