I found a solution for it.

Making a JSON whose content is {"client_email": 
"[email protected]} and providing Packer 
with the path as `account_file` works for me.


On Monday, March 27, 2017 at 4:25:12 PM UTC+9, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi, there.
>
> I'm reading https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/googlecompute.html to 
> make a VM image on GCP and wondering how to specify the service account 
> which is attached to the vm instance to make the image.
> The document says that account_file option works for such a use case but, 
> when it comes to a process running on a VM instance, any process has 
> permission to use the instance default service account without any JSON key 
> file and, I think, the packer process should also be able to use the 
> service account without any JSON key file to start a VM.
>
> Is there any good option or good practice to start an VM without 
> specifying a JSON key file?
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Kohei Kawasaki
>
>

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