[JCLOUDS-518] Support retrieving OAuth tokens from GCE instance metadata

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
• Component/s: jclouds-compute, jclouds-labs-google
• Labels: google-compute-engine
• Assignee: Chris Custine
• Reporter: Mikołaj Zalewski
• Created: 29/Mar/14 19:50
• Updated: 15/Jun/15 14:24

Description

If configured, a GCE instance has access to an OAuth token for the project's service account. It's available through the http://metadata server. The details are described in https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/authentication . This feature request is to provide an API to retrieve this token.