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If you develop or manage apps on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you’re probably familiar with Cloud Shell, which provides you with a secure CLI that you can use to manage your environment directly from the browser. But while Cloud Shell’s default image contains most of the tools you could wish for, in some cases you might need more–for example, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, or Helm, the Kubernetes package manager.
In this blog post, you will learn how to create a custom Docker image for Cloud Shell that includes the Helm client and Terraform. At a high level, this is a two-step process:
- Create and publish a Docker image
- Configure your custom image to be used in Cloud Shell
Let’s take a closer look.
1. Create and publish a custom Cloud Shell Docker image
First, you need to create new Docker image that’s based on the default Cloud Shell image and then publish the image you created to Container Registry.
1. Create a new repo and set the project ID where the Docker image should be published:
