GKE: Docker login alway succeeds, but push does not work even with valid credentials

5/22/2017

I have a GKE cluster running in GCE, I was able to build + tag an image derived from ubuntu:16.04:

/ # docker images
REPOSITORY                          TAG                 IMAGE ID            
CREATED             SIZE
eu.gcr.io/my-project/ubuntu-gcloud   latest              a723e43228ae        7 minutes ago       347MB
ubuntu                              16.04               ebcd9d4fca80        7 days ago          118MB

First I try to log in to registry (as documented in GKE docs) docker login -u oauth2accesstoken -p `curl -s "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/token" -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google"|awk -F\" "{ print \$4 }"` eu.gcr.io`

And then the docker push command fails:

# docker push eu.gcr.io/my-project/ubuntu-gcloud
The push refers to a repository [eu.gcr.io/my-project/ubuntu-gcloud]
a3a6893ab23f: Preparing
6e390fa7d62c: Preparing
22b8fccbaf84: Preparing
085eeae7a10b: Preparing
b29983dd2306: Preparing
33f1a94ed7fc: Waiting
b27287a6dbce: Waiting
47c2386f248c: Waiting
2be95f0d8a0c: Waiting
2df9b8def18a: Waiting
denied: Unable to create the repository, please check that you have access to do so.

The token should be valid, in another instance I'm able to gcloud whatever with it; the service account has 'Editor' role on the project.

The weirdest part is when I do docker login with obviously invalid credentials

misko@MacBook ~ $ docker login -u oauth2accesstoken -p somethingverystupidthatisreallynotmypasswordortoken123 eu.gcr.io
Login Succeeded

login always succeeds.

What shall I do to successfully docker push to gcr.io?

-- Misko
docker
docker-registry
google-kubernetes-engine
kubernetes
oauth-2.0

1 Answer

5/23/2017

Try this:

gcloud docker -- push eu.gcr.io/my-project/ubuntu-gcloud

If you want to use regular docker commands, update your docker configuration with GCR credentials:

gcloud docker -a

Then you can build and push docker images like this:

docker build -t eu.gcr.io/my-project/ubuntu-gcloud .
docker push eu.gcr.io/my-project/ubuntu-gcloud
-- Jahongir Rahmonov
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