How can I clone Google Cloud Platform repository to Google Cloud Platform VM

Question

Can't clone a Google Cloud Platform repository to a Google Cloud Platform VM

Issue: When I attempt to clone I get "Permission denied (publickey)"

Setup:

• Created an SSH key pair on the VM
• In the Google Cloud Platform VM edited the instance details via the dashboard, added the key, and saved it
• Started the VM and confirmed in the instance details that the key was registered.
• On the Cloud Source Repositories dashboard for my repo registered the public key

Attempts:

• Connected to the instance via ssh from my local terminal, confirmed again that the key existed then attempted to clone the repo. Same permission denied result.
• Connected to the instance via the terminal created by the remote access button on the GCP instance details dashboard. Same permission denied result.

The keys on my local machine are also registered with Cloud Source Repositories and I am able to clone the repo into my local machine without any problem.

Answer 1

This issue was resolved with a command different than the one provided by Cloud Source Repositories. Problem was related to the fact that my company set up my account - I don't have the creds to manage it. The clone command provided by provided by Cloud Source Repositories included a reference to the account the company set up which was not accepted even though I used gcloud init on the VM.

I tried using the cloud SDK on the VM. This resulted in the clone being successful: gcloud source repos clone [repo-name] --project=[project-name]

My team is just now migrating from on-prem to GCP and we're hitting the occasional speed bump like this.

By the way, most of the references to "credential helper" on the GCP doc related to Docker. That did not seem relevant to the repo issue.