gcloud component update fails

Question

I\'ve deployed to VM\'s running Debian on GCE and have cron scripts that use gcloud commands.

I noticed that gcloud components update retuns this error

Answer 1

You cannot update components using the built in SDK tools on a compute engine instance. However you can download another local copy of the SDK from https://cloud.google.com/sdk/ (curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash) and update your path accordingly to use the new SDK install, and you will have the component manager enabled.