How to auto login to GCP using gcloud cli?

Question

We have GCP account credentials(username/password). We have installed gcloud CLI on the Amazon Linux EC2 machine. We would like to create a script that would auto-login to the GCP account and do the below things sequentially using gcloud CLI.

• Login to the GCP account.
• Create Project and specify a meaningful project-id.
• Create a service account with a meaningful ID.
• Assign the owner role to the service account.
• Create and download a new JSON key.

Please help us to achieve this

Answer 1

You should use a Service Account not a User (username|password) for automation. The Service Account should be suitably permissioned so that it can create Projects and Service Accounts.

I was unable to find a source for this (but it used to be that?) Google monitors User Accounts for apparent use of automation (eg for bots) and these accounts may be disabled.