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I think I found the issue :point_right:  <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3919>

Literally came up yesterday as well. You should be able to work around by setting `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`?

Looks like I can't pass `JSON` into it, it is looking for a file path.. :thinking_face:

That is what it's looking for, GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS is a file path, GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS is the contents of that file.

<https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started#setting_the_environment_variable>

Problem is that
```FileSystem selects a file on the operator's file system```

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes-operator/blob/master/docs/stacks.md#stackspecenvrefskeyfilesystem>

Ah right, I don't know if there's anyway to inject a file into the operator.
Someone _might_ have a work around but sounds like a good reason to priortise the fix for GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS. I'm off rest of this week but I'll nudge internally to see if someone can pick it up, it shouldn't be a hard thing to fix.

I have looked into it, and it won't be so easy to fix..

<https://github.com/google/go-cloud/blob/43615ecbcb28c7e9599b4e2262c3961279812e76/gcp/gcp.go#L80>

<https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/oauth2/google#FindDefaultCredentials>

A possible workaround would mean using `Workload Identity`

Interesting ideas in that issue <https://github.com/google/go-cloud/issues/3108>

Check this out too, <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/6379>

Hey, it's been a 4 day weekend here in the UK. I'll be looking into this this week.

I've picked up and merged <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/6379/> which should mean GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS is now picked up for secrets not just state storage. Should be in the release tomorrow.

Amazing! thank you very much <@U02J3T6A8LB> :thumbsup: