Run kubectl commands in a workflow

You can run gcloud CLI commands from a Cloud Build step, and you can create that step in Workflows using the Cloud Build connector.

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• Best practices for Workflows

Code sample

YAML

# This example shows how to execute kubectl commands from Workflows
# using Cloud Build and returns the output

main:
  steps:
  - execute_command:
      call: kubectl
      args:
          args: "--help"
      result: result
  - return_result:
      return: ${result}

kubectl:
  params: [args]
  steps:
  - create_build:
      call: googleapis.cloudbuild.v1.projects.builds.create
      args:
        projectId: ${sys.get_env("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID")}
        parent: ${"projects/" + sys.get_env("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID") + "/locations/global"}
        body:
          serviceAccount: ${sys.get_env("GOOGLE_CLOUD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME")}
          options:
            logging: CLOUD_LOGGING_ONLY
          steps:
          - name: gcr.io/cloud-builders/kubectl
            entrypoint: /bin/bash
            args: ${["-c", "kubectl " + args + " > $$BUILDER_OUTPUT/output"]}
      result: result_builds_create
  - return_build_result:
      return: ${text.split(text.decode(base64.decode(result_builds_create.metadata.build.results.buildStepOutputs[0])), "\n")}

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