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☁️ Google Vertex AI Login (gcloud)

If you want to use Vertex AI with LrGeniusAI, run the login on the machine where geniusai-server is running.

macOS

  1. Install Google Cloud CLI (if needed):
    https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install
  2. Open Terminal and run:
gcloud init
gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT_ID
gcloud auth application-default login
  1. Optional verification:
gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

Windows (PowerShell)

  1. Install Google Cloud CLI (if needed):
    https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install
  2. Open Google Cloud SDK Shell (or PowerShell with gcloud in PATH) and run:
gcloud init
gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT_ID
gcloud auth application-default login
  1. Optional verification:
gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

Remote backend with Docker Compose

If your backend runs as a remote Docker container, authenticate inside the container and persist the Google Cloud CLI state with the bind mount in docker-compose.yml.

  1. Open a shell on the server in the repository root:
mkdir -p gcloud
docker compose up -d --build
  1. Set the Vertex project inside the running container:
docker compose exec geniusai-server gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT_ID
  1. Login for Application Default Credentials (ADC):
docker compose exec geniusai-server gcloud auth application-default login
  1. Optional verification:
docker compose exec geniusai-server gcloud auth application-default print-access-token

For headless SSH hosts without a browser, use:

docker compose exec geniusai-server gcloud auth application-default login --no-browser

Then follow the remote bootstrap flow shown by gcloud on a second trusted machine that has a browser and Google Cloud CLI installed.

Notes

  • gcloud auth application-default login creates local Application Default Credentials (ADC).
  • In Docker Compose, the bind mount ./gcloud:/root/.config/gcloud keeps ADC and the active gcloud project across container restarts and rebuilds.
  • Set Vertex AI Project ID and Vertex AI Location in the Lightroom plugin settings.
  • Do not set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS when you want the container to use ADC created by gcloud auth application-default login.
  • For headless/server deployments, prefer service-account auth via GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS.
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