GCP – Setup Google Cloud Credentials using gcloud SDK

1 – Create your service account programmatic access on Google Cloud

IAM & Administration -> Service Accounts -> Create New Service Account -> Keys -> Add Keys

2 – Choose json as output

3 – Activate it with the command below

gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file="~/gcloud.json"

4 – To check, you can use this command

$ gcloud auth list
                  Credentialed Accounts
ACTIVE  ACCOUNT
*       devops@devopsclick-132321.iam.gserviceaccount.com

5 – If you have multiple accounts, you can switch between them using

$ gcloud config set account ACCOUNT