Where are Google Application Default Credentials stored?

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Cameron Taggart picture Cameron Taggart · Oct 14, 2016 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

When you run gcloud auth login or gcloud auth list, where is it storing the credentials?

https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials

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Cameron Taggart picture Cameron Taggart · Oct 14, 2016

I found them. They are in ~/.config/gcloud/credentials. I was able to pass the default credentials to the docker image I'm working on by mounting them docker run --rm -it -v ~/.config/gcloud:/root/.config/gcloud alpine:3.4 sh.

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