anthoscli ERROR on installing Google Cloud SDK on Apple Silicon / Big Sur

Question

I am searching for the solution for some weeks now. A couple weeks ago I received the new MacBook Pro with the Apple Silicon processor and with Big Sur installed on it. When I tried to install Google Cloud SDK, because I need that for my work, I get my first problem. I opened the terminal and used "curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash" to start the installation.

After I received the question if I want to help to improve Google Cloud SDK and hit 'N' this error follows. Also when I hit 'Y'...

ERROR: (gcloud.components.update) The following components are unknown [anthoscli].

On the internet I can't found something about this error. The only thing what I have found on anthoscli is that I think it has something to do with Kubernetes and/or Docker. So I tried to install Docker first, only they are not ready for Apple Silicon yet...

I can't imagine being the only one with this problem so I hope someone here can help me further.

Answer 1

It's a known issue "Apple Silicon Installer does not exist"

The workaround from the above link is:

1. Attempt install: curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash
2. Run installer manually using files from above failed install ./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud components install core gsutil
3. Re-run init: ./google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud init

Answer 2

I just tested on Apple M1 MBP Big Sur 11.1, which works for me.

Followed mager.co blogpost-How to install gcloud on an M1 Mac

Full steps as following:

1. Install homebrew package management first

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Install Python 3.9.1 use pyenv

   brew install pyenv
   pyenv install 3.9.1
   pyenv global 3.9.1
   

3. Set an env variable letting the gcloud installer know which version of Python to use:

   export CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python3

4. Download the SDK and start the install, which I ran into ERROR the following components are unknown [anthoscli, kuberun]:

   curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash

5. Thus manually run the install.sh script

   cd ~/google-cloud-sdk
   ./install.sh --override-components core gcloud-deps bq gcloud gsutil
   

Answer 3

I got gcloud to install by installing under Rosetta 2.

curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com > install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
arch -x86_64 install.sh --disable-prompts
# restart shell
gcloud help

I don't think Apple did a good job of advertising this feature, because I only found it in a random Hacker News thread. I've used this strategy quite a bit and added this to my shell's rc file.

x86() {
    arch -x86_64 $1
}

x86 install.sh --disable-prompts