`docker-credential-gcloud` not in system PATH

Question

After the latest updates to gcloud and docker I'm unable to access images on my google container repository. Locally when I run: gcloud auth configure-docker as per the instructions after updating gcloud, I get the following message:

WARNING: `docker-credential-gcloud` not in system PATH.
gcloud's Docker credential helper can be configured but it will not work until this is corrected.
gcloud credential helpers already registered correctly.

Running which docker-credential-gcloud returns docker-credential-gcloud not found.

I have no other gcloud-related path issues and for the life of me can't figure out how to install/add docker-credential-gcloud to path. Here's what I have installed (shown via gcloud version):

Google Cloud SDK 197.0.0
beta 2017.09.15
bq 2.0.31
container-builder-local
core 2018.04.06
docker-credential-gcr
gsutil 4.30

I also have Docker CE Version 18.03.0-ce-mac60 (23751).

Here's my $PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

I also ran source /usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/path.zsh.inc on original gcloud install.

Solution 1

Notice: All docker-credential-gcr below can be replaced with docker-credential-gcloud. I think it is just different versions of gcloud, I might be wrong.

I used Homebrew Cask to install gcloud too. I installed docker-credential-gcr with

$ gcloud components install docker-credential-gcr

And then like you said, which docker-credential-gcr doesn't gave you anything.

So I ran which gcloud to find there is a symlink to gcloud in /usr/local/bin. This symlink is created by Homebrew when you installed gcloud at first place. Now docker-credential-gcr wasn't installed by Homebrew but by gcloud itself, so there isn't a symlink.

I called readlink /usr/local/bin/gcloud and found out gcloud is installed in /usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin/.

Then:

$ ls /usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin

There you should see docker-credential-gcr listed there.

I simply linked it to /usr/local/bin:

$ ln -s \
    /usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin/docker-credential-gcr \
    /usr/local/bin/

Then run:

$ docker-credential-gcr configure-docker

It should succeed.

Solution 2

Just had the same issue on Windows, running Docker with Linux containers, Docker engine v19.03.8. Using docker compose. I do not use gcloud for my dockerfiles...

DT1001 dockerpycreds.errors.InitializationError: docker-credential-gcloud not installed or not available in PATH

1. Option 1: Edit the docker configuration file and remove all gcloud entries from there.

   • Windows c:/Users/<your account>/.docker/config.json

   • Linux & MacOS ~/.docker/config.json

2. Option 2: Go to Troubleshoot -> Reset to factory defaults.

After this my docker compose was creating containers and running the images without any issues.

Solution 3

On MacOS

Step 1：

Install gcloud and docker-credential-gcr, following this tutorial

Step 2:

$ ln -s /usr/local/google-cloud-sdk/bin/docker-credential-gcr /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-gcloud

Step 3:

$ rm -rf ~/.docker

Step 4:

$ docker-compose build --pull

Finished!

Solution 4

Never found a way to directly resolve the docker-credential-gcloud issue, but the following got me up and running again. WARNING: the following will delete all your existing docker images and install a bunch of gcloud utilities:

1. gcloud components install docker-credential-gcr,
2. Restart the terminal completely
3. docker-credential-gcr configure-docker.

4. screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty

5. umount /var/lib/docker/overlay2

6. rm -rf /var/lib/docker
7. Restart the terminal completely.

Solution 5

The new version of google-cloud-sdk has only docker-credential-gcr but not docker-credential-gcloud anymore. On the other hand one of my python packages always requested docker-credential-gcloud.

The solution was to symlink docker-credential-gcloud to docker-credential-gcr:

ln -s /path/to/google-cloud-sdk/bin/docker-credential-gcr /usr/local/bin/docker-credential-gcloud

ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep docker should now print:

...
docker-credential-gcloud -> /path/to/google-cloud-sdk/bin/docker-credential-gcr
...

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Comments

[jumand]

This answer almost worked for me, but needed a tweak. The symlink step seemed to have an outdated/typo in it. It referenced docker-credential-gcr instead of docker-credential-gcloud. Updating that step as below worked for me. $ ln -s /usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk‌​/bin/docker-credenti‌​al-gcloud /usr/local/bin/

[Xiwen Li]

Thank you Jumand for noticing it. It was pure type. I am having it corrected.

[Xiwen Li]

I just checked. On my machine it is docker-credential-gcr. And I ran gcloud components list docker-credential-gcloud isn't there. I don't know what's going on.

[Maximilian]

@jumand - I think that docker-credential-gcr is the new tool, and -gcloud is the deprecated one. See cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/…

[Praxiteles]

On executing statement 3 we received this warning. Any concern? "...WARNING: Unable to execute docker version: exit status 1 This is expected if docker is not installed, or if dockerd cannot be reached..."

[ZaxR]

I don't remember encountering that, but the accepted answer makes a lot more sense than this one I think

[Inbar Rose]

for me it was not in /usr/local/Caskroom/ but in /snap/ (using ubuntu)

[asdfqwer]

This worked for me. For the love of god I couldn't find the executable and was about to clone and run the repo. After extracting ran: ./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud init then ./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud components install docker-credential-gcr then just add the bin to your $PATH

[Amir Chatrbahr]

I had to make credHelpers empty "credHelpers":{}. thanks worked for me.

[Dirk]

I also cleared "credHelpers":{} as mentioned by @amir-chatrbahr, but it was filled again. I assume it can come from updating Docker Desktop or IntelliJ (where I have an unconfigured GCloud plugin)?

[bzani]

I was having the same problem trying to docker-compose build locally, after uninstalling gcloud, so after removing both files it worked fine: /usr/bin/docker-credential-gcloud and ~/.docker/config.json

[av-k]

Helped just to remove ~/.docker/config.json and restart Docker.