Gcloud Login — With Service Account

I clicked "Keys" in the Service Accounts tab, selected "Add Key," and chose "Create new key." I selected JSON.

I was no longer "Ryan," the sleepy sysadmin. In the eyes of Google Cloud, my terminal was now ingestion-sa . I had shed my human skin and become the robot. gcloud login with service account

Error: 403 Forbidden google.auth.exceptions.DefaultCredentialsError: Your default credentials were not available. I clicked "Keys" in the Service Accounts tab,

gcloud auth activate-service-account my-sa@project-123.iam.gserviceaccount.com --key-file=/secure/keys/my-sa-key.json --project=my-project selected "Add Key