Sign in

This page covers instructions on signing into Google Distributed Cloud Sandbox. You can sign in to your environment using the Console and gdcloud CLI. Before you continue, ensure you have set up your GDC Sandbox environment on your preferred operating system (OS). To set up your environment, see Access the environment.

Also, ensure that you have downloaded the gdcloud CLI. See Download the gdcloud CLI.

Console

  1. In your preferred remote desktop client, open a browser window.
  2. In the address bar, enter https://console.org-1.zone1.google.gdch.test/. A Sign in page appears.

  3. Click Continue with fake-oidc-provider. A Fake OIDC Provider page appears.

  4. In the Select a user list, click Platform Admin.

  5. Click Submit.

gdcloud

  1. Open your preferred remote desktop client.

  2. Set the default GDC organization, org-1. For more details on GDC organizations, see Organization.

    gdcloud config set core/organization_console_url \
  https://console.org-1.zone1.google.gdch.test

  3. Retrieve the certificates to authorize your sign in operation:

    echo -n | openssl s_client -showcerts -connect \
  console.org-1.zone1.google.gdch.test:443 | \
  sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p' \
  > /tmp/org-1-web-tls-ca.cert

  4. Authenticate and sign into your GDC Sandbox environment. A browser window opens.

    gdcloud auth login --login-config-cert=/tmp/org-1-web-tls-ca.cert

  5. To continue your operations using the gdcloud CLI, close the browser.

  6. Optional: To continue your sign in through the browser, follow steps three to five in Console.