The tools/kops utility currently relies on executing external CLI commands (gcloud and gsutil) for various GCP operations in pkg/kops/gcp.go. This approach introduces external dependencies, makes error handling brittle, and is less efficient than direct API calls.
We should refactor these methods to use the GCP go client libraries.

Current Usage (pkg/kops/gcp.go)

1. Account Discovery:

   saCmd := exec.Command("gcloud", "config", "list", "--format", "value(core.account)")

2. SSH Configuration:

   cmd := exec.Command("gcloud", "compute", "--project="+c.GCPProject, "config-ssh", "--ssh-key-file="+c.SSHPrivateKey)

3. GCS Bucket Management (gsutil):
   • gsutil ls to check if the bucket exists.
   • gsutil mb to create the bucket.
   • gsutil ubla set off to disable uniform bucket-level access.
   • gsutil iam ch to set IAM permissions.

Proposed Changes

Refactor pkg/kops/gcp.go to use the client libraries.

1. Replace gcloud config list:
   • Use cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata.
2. Replace gcloud compute config-ssh:
   • Use cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1.
3. Replace gsutil:
   • Use cloud.google.com/go/storage.