ERROR: (gcloud.auth.activate-service-account) Could not read json file /tmp/key-file.json: Expecting

[Michał Kochman]

Hi,

I'm trying to configurate autodeploys with bitbucket pipeline and google cloud.
I have base yaml:

 - pipe: atlassian/google-cloud-storage-deploy:1.0.1
variables:
KEY_FILE: $KEY_FILE
PROJECT: 'somexyz'
BUCKET: 'somexyz'
SOURCE: './test'

 And I have problem with access ;(
So I have cloud priv key

MIIEvgIBA...

 I generated base64 from it  base64 -w 0 < file

SUV2Z0lCQURBTkJna3F...

I set on bitbucket secured key KEY_FILE with base64 value and I get 

ERROR: (gcloud.auth.activate-service-account) Could not read json file /tmp/key-file.json: Expecting

Any idea why? 

[Michał Kochman · Accepted solution]

I've found the answer :D
Ehh all generated key file should be converted to base64 and passed as secure bitbucket variable XD
Quite strange that when I created json structure only with private keys(key -> value) I didn't get info like no access or missing access data from gcloud but the same error as it was empty XD