How can I renew the kube config file expiry date?

Question

Today I faced an issue while running my jenkins job. I got this error:

Unable to connect to the server: error executing access token command 
"/snap/google-cloud-sdk/234/bin/gcloud config config-helper --format=json": err=fork/exec /snap/google-cloud-sdk/234/bin/gcloud: 
no such file or directory output= stderr=

After when I try to run below command the issue got resolved and jenkins job will complete successfully.

gcloud container clusters get-credentials cluster_name --region=region_name

Before run this command in my kube config file expiry date was 2022-04-25 and after running above command expiry date get changed to today (2022-05-02) only. Here my doubt if I run my jenkins job on tomorrow (2022-05-03) my job will fail with same error right because of expiry date up to tomorrow only ?

So How can I fix this kube config file expiry date issue permanently not on daily run command?

kube config file:

apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: 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
    server: https://104.198.97.158
  name: gke_oenofile_us-west1-a_oenofile-dev-cluster
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: gke_oenofile_us-west1-a_oenofile-dev-cluster
    user: gke_oenofile_us-west1-a_oenofile-dev-cluster
  name: gke_oenofile_us-west1-a_oenofile-dev-cluster
current-context: gke_oenofile_us-west1-a_oenofile-dev-cluster
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: gke_oenofile_us-west1-a_oenofile-dev-cluster
  user:
    auth-provider:
      config:
        access-token: ya29.c.b0AXv0zTMYzxRz5DGICZ0wdd1VKT_0qkZFOZ2j69BIEMNNu3p6XDSIyH3T-eO6lJM5JBsB3vmyQ4YeVxTl8_ky3vgRupyJvaFMQRsnu8uf1LiAzC1kuYCsVAwWJNk6Y4RcQOMCue1utIEOjON_z8fO-XxQZiGrzYVIlZUBMzMrOwQn-Aq5XwpcBgqn_iciDL7-Y7IKkZ4F3Q.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
        cmd-args: config config-helper --format=json
        cmd-path: /snap/google-cloud-sdk/237/bin/gcloud
        expiry: "2022-05-02T11:54:40Z"
        expiry-key: '{.credential.token_expiry}'
        token-key: '{.credential.access_token}'
      name: gcp

screenshot of the above

Answer 1

The error appears to be clear: /snap/google-cloud-sdk/234/bin/gcloud does not exist.

You appear to be running gcloud as an (Ubuntu) Snap. This will benefit from automatic upgrades but, you should not hard code the Snap version (234) as this folder will eventually be deleted. I suspect that's what's happened. You should:

#1 Reference the binary through the current folder i.e. /snap/google-cloud-sdk/current/bin/gcloud.

However, since you're attempting to authenticate to the cluster using Jenkins, you should consider using a (Google Cloud Platform) Service Account (not a Kubernetes Service Account) rather than your user credentials.

#2 See Authenticating to the Kubernetes API within GCP and external to GCP.

NOTE It's possible (!?) that you could use Workload Identity Federation to federate credentials of e.g. Azure|AWS to GCP to authenticate to the GKE cluster.