Github Actions "unauthorized: You don't have the needed permissions to perform this operation, and you may have invalid credentials" - github

Question

I have created a github workflow to deploy to GCP. But when it comes to push the docker image to GCP I get this error
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346fddbbb0ff: Waiting
a6fc7a8843ca: Waiting
unauthorized: You don't have the needed permissions to perform this operation, and you may have invalid credentials. To authenticate your request, follow the steps in: https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/advanced-authentication
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
Here is my yaml file :
name: Build for Dev
on:
workflow_dispatch:
env:
GKE_PROJECT: bi-dev
IMAGE: gcr.io/bi-dev/bot-dev
DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG: JAVA-${{ github.sha }}
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
with:
ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.commit_sha }}
- name: Build Docker Image
run: docker build -t ${{env.IMAGE}} .
- uses: google-github-actions/setup-gcloud#v0.2.0
with:
project_id: ${{ env.GKE_PROJECT }}
service_account_key: ${{ secrets.GKE_KEY }}
export_default_credentials: true
- name: Push Docker Image to GCP
run: |
gcloud auth configure-docker
docker tag ${{env.IMAGE}} ${{env.IMAGE}}:${{env.DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG}}
docker push ${{env.IMAGE}}:${{env.DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG}}
- name: Update Deployment in GKE
env:
GKE_CLUSTER: bots-dev-test
GKE_DEPLOYMENT: bot-dev
GKE_CONTAINER: bot-dev
run: |
gcloud container clusters get-credentials ${{ env.GKE_CLUSTER }} --zone us-east1-b --project ${{ env.GKE_PROJECT }}
kubectl set image deployment/$GKE_DEPLOYMENT ${{ env.GKE_CONTAINER }}=${{ env.IMAGE }}:${{ env.TAG }}
kubectl rollout status deployment/$GKE_DEPLOYMENT
Surprisingly when I manually run docker push it works fine
Also I am using the similar yaml file to push other projects and they work totally fine. Its just this github action that fails.
Any leads would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Found out that I missed a step and didnt add the Service Account keys in Secrets for Github actions and that led to the failure of this particular actions.