This is a convience tool that generates JWT tokens to access applications on Google's infrastructure. Mainly useful if you are accessing the application from outside of the GCP boundary. Once the token is generated you can access applications hosted in Google cloud platform with a Authorization header set to Bearer <token>.
The executable ZIP module is self-contained and holds all the dependencies it needs. Compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.x
If all you want is a pre-built binary, check out the releases page.
- Requires pip installed with Python 2.7 (purely to support Python 2)
- Run
./package.shto generate the executable
usage: gen-id-token.pyz [-h] --audience AUDIENCE --key-file KEY_FILE
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--audience AUDIENCE Audience
--key-file KEY_FILE Service Account Key