gcloud projects list is always empty

[HosamEmam]

When i am trying to access projects in my google cloud account using 

gcloud projects list

always getting the following

+ gcloud projects listListed 0 items. 

So I can't complete the steps  - and i can't set the project 

and in this step

gcloud config set project $MY_PROJECT

I got 

+ gcloud config set project #My_PROJECT Updated property [core/project].
WARNING: You do not appear to have access to project [#My_PROJECT] or it does not exist.

The following is steps in my pipeline

- step:
    name: Test google auth
    image: google/cloud-sdk:latest
    script:
      - echo $KEY_FILE | base64 --decode --ignore-garbage > ~/google-key.json
      - gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file ~/google-key.json
      - gcloud projects list
      - gcloud config set project $MY_PROJECT
      - gcloud container clusters get-credentials $MY_CLUSTER --region $REGION
    services:
      - docker

- Is there any missing steps? or prerequists to link bitbucket to my google account?

[Ahmed Yehia · Accepted solution]

If you successfully activate the service account as follows:

gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file service-account-key.json

and you can see it as the ACTIVE one after executing the following:

gcloud auth list

and still, get ZERO items

Listed 0 items.

after executing the following:

gcloud projects list

THEN

Try to add your service account as a member of your Organization beside the project and assign it a Viewer role.

[Oleksandr Kyrdan]

Hi @HosamEmam ,

Thank you for the feedback!

Have you encoded and configured a $KEY_FILE properly?

Encode the private key

Pipelines does not currently support line breaks in environment variables, so base-64 encode the private key by running:

LINUX

$ base64 -w 0 < google-key.json

MAC OS X

$ base64 < google-key.json

[HosamEmam]

It is encoded well as after decoding, I tried to read the result and found it correct, i encoded using windows - as the following example

certutil -encode data.txt tmp.b64 && findstr /v /c:- tmp.b64 > data.b64

 And i tried it without encoding just plain text and the same issue