How to use with GCP (Google Cloud Platform)?

[NotoriousRebel]

What I'd like:

To deploy bottlerocket on GCP

Any alternatives you've considered:
I've been primarily using rancher OS as well as a rancher server to manage kubernetes, and followed their installation guide

[jhaynes]

Thanks for creating this issue. We’d love to get Bottlerocket working on GCP and are looking forward to expanding Bottlerocket’s build targets. However, GCP support isn't next on our priority list. That said, we'd welcome contributions here if you have experience with GCP! We’re happy to provide guidance on what build system changes might be required.

The first few things that are currently AWS-centric are any place we call IMDS; namely pluto and early_boot_config. In the case of early_boot_config, a user could extend the program for GCP using the PlatformDataProvider trait provided in main.rs. In the case of pluto, a user could duplicate or extend it to read whatever data sources GCP makes available for Kubernetes configuration variables.

Aside from that, this would involve building a new variant. A recent example that shows some of the things that would need to be updated is here.

Other things that would need to be extended, validated or built (and this isn't a complete list):

• netdog - maybe depending on DHCP in AWS/GCP
• host-ctr assumes ECR (and auth)
• Need a replacement for aws-iam-authenticator to pull containers from GCP container registry

[c4milo]

Supporting GCP will increase adoption more. I hope it gets prioritize soon 🤞🏼