installation of Cloud SDK not working on newer Ubuntu (e.g. 18.04)

[jwhitney31337]

On recent Ubuntu versions, the easy_install scripts are no longer installed as part of package python-setuptools This means that the procedure dsub uses to install the SDK (when gsutil is not already present on my docker image) breaks: in the error log I see a "command not found" message for easy_install.

One way to fix this would be to substitute:

apt-get install python-pip

for

easy_install -U pip

in dsub/providers/google.py

This seems a little bloated due to the number of dependencies but appears to work both for 14.04 and 18.04. There might be a better way but this is at least simple.

[mbookman]

With the deprecation of Pipelines v1alpha2 and the google provider, we have no plans to implement this. Pull requests would still be accepted.

[jwhitney31337]

Ah! TIL I could just use --provider google-v2 and problem solved!