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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2022 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This script brings up a Kubernetes cluster using kops and a local CCM image.
+# It is based on the e2e test script in e2e/scenarios/kops-simple.
+#
+# Usage:
+#
+# # Set required environment variables
+# export GCP_PROJECT="your-gcp-project-id"
+# export CLUSTER_NAME="your-cluster-name.k8s.local"
+#
+# # Optional: To prevent the script from deleting the cluster after creation, set:
+# export DELETE_CLUSTER="false"
+#
+# # Run the script
+# ./tools/kops_local_ccm.sh
+
+set -e
+set -x
+
+# This script brings up a Kubernetes cluster using kops and a local CCM image.
+# It is based on the e2e test script in e2e/scenarios/kops-simple.
+
+REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+cd ${REPO_ROOT}
+cd ..
+WORKSPACE=$(pwd)
+
+# Default workdir
+if [[ -z "${WORKDIR:-}" ]]; then
+  WORKDIR="${WORKSPACE}/clusters/${CLUSTER_NAME}"
+fi
+mkdir -p "${WORKDIR}"
+
+if [[ -z "${GCP_PROJECT:-}" ]]; then
+  echo "GCP_PROJECT must be set"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Ensure we have an SSH key; needed to dump the node information to artifacts/
+if [[ -z "${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH:-}" ]]; then
+  echo "SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH not set, creating one"
+
+  SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH="${WORKDIR}/google_compute_engine"
+  # This will create a new key if one doesn't exist, and add it to the project metadata.
+  gcloud compute config-ssh --project="${GCP_PROJECT}" --ssh-key-file="${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH}" --quiet
+  export KUBE_SSH_USER="${USER}"
+fi
+
+# Create bindir
+BINDIR=${WORKSPACE}/bin
+export PATH=${BINDIR}:${PATH}
+mkdir -p "${BINDIR}"
+
+# Setup our cleanup function; as we allocate resources we set a variable to indicate they should be cleaned up
+function cleanup {
+  if [[ "${DELETE_CLUSTER:-}" == "true" ]]; then
+      kops delete cluster --name "${CLUSTER_NAME}" --state "${KOPS_STATE_STORE}" --yes || echo "kops delete cluster failed"
+  fi
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+# Default cluster name
+if [[ -z "${CLUSTER_NAME:-}" ]]; then
+  echo "CLUSTER_NAME must be set"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "CLUSTER_NAME=${CLUSTER_NAME}"
+
+echo "GCP_PROJECT=${GCP_PROJECT}"
+
+echo "SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH=${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH}"
+export KUBE_SSH_PUBLIC_KEY_PATH="${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH}.pub"
+
+
+if [[ -z "${K8S_VERSION:-}" ]]; then
+  K8S_VERSION="$(curl -sL https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)"
+fi
+
+# Set cloud provider to gce
+CLOUD_PROVIDER="gce"
+echo "CLOUD_PROVIDER=${CLOUD_PROVIDER}"
+
+#Set cloud provider location
+GCP_LOCATION="${GCP_LOCATION:-us-central1}"
+ZONES="${ZONES:-us-central1-a}"
+
+# KOPS_STATE_STORE holds metadata about the clusters we create
+if [[ -z "${KOPS_STATE_STORE:-}" ]]; then
+  KOPS_STATE_STORE="gs://kops-state-${GCP_PROJECT}"
+fi
+
+# Ensure the bucket exists
+if ! gsutil ls -p "${GCP_PROJECT}" "${KOPS_STATE_STORE}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  gsutil mb -p "${GCP_PROJECT}" -l "${GCP_LOCATION}" "${KOPS_STATE_STORE}"
+  # Setting ubla off so that kOps can automatically set ACLs for the default serviceACcount
+  gsutil ubla set off "${KOPS_STATE_STORE}"
+fi
+
+echo "KOPS_STATE_STORE=${KOPS_STATE_STORE}"
+export KOPS_STATE_STORE
+
+# IMAGE_REPO is used to upload images
+if [[ -z "${IMAGE_REPO:-}" ]]; then
+  IMAGE_REPO="gcr.io/${GCP_PROJECT}"
+fi
+echo "IMAGE_REPO=${IMAGE_REPO}"
+
+cd ${REPO_ROOT}
+if [[ -z "${IMAGE_TAG:-}" ]]; then
+  IMAGE_TAG=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)-$(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)
+fi
+echo "IMAGE_TAG=${IMAGE_TAG}"
+
+# Build and push cloud-controller-manager
+cd ${REPO_ROOT}
+
+export KUBE_ROOT=${REPO_ROOT}
+source "${REPO_ROOT}/tools/version.sh"
+get_version_vars
+unset KUBE_ROOT
+
+echo "git status:"
+git status
+
+echo "Configuring docker auth with gcloud"
+gcloud auth configure-docker
+
+echo "Building and pushing images"
+IMAGE_REPO=${IMAGE_REPO} IMAGE_TAG=${IMAGE_TAG} tools/push-images
+
+if [[ -z "${ADMIN_ACCESS:-}" ]]; then
+  ADMIN_ACCESS="0.0.0.0/0" # Or use your IPv4 with /32
+fi
+echo "ADMIN_ACCESS=${ADMIN_ACCESS}"
+
+# Add our manifest
+cp "${REPO_ROOT}/deploy/packages/default/manifest.yaml" "${WORKDIR}/cloud-provider-gcp.yaml"
+sed -i -e "s@k8scloudprovidergcp/cloud-controller-manager:latest@${IMAGE_REPO}/cloud-controller-manager:${IMAGE_TAG}@g" "${WORKDIR}/cloud-provider-gcp.yaml"
+
+# Enable cluster addons, this enables us to replace the built-in manifest
+export KOPS_FEATURE_FLAGS="ClusterAddons,${KOPS_FEATURE_FLAGS:-}"
+echo "KOPS_FEATURE_FLAGS=${KOPS_FEATURE_FLAGS}"
+
+# The caller can set DELETE_CLUSTER=false to stop us deleting the cluster
+if [[ -z "${DELETE_CLUSTER:-}" ]]; then
+  DELETE_CLUSTER="true"
+fi
+
+kops create cluster \
+  --name "${CLUSTER_NAME}" \
+  --state "${KOPS_STATE_STORE}" \
+  --zones "${ZONES}" \
+  --project "${GCP_PROJECT}" \
+  --kubernetes-version="${K8S_VERSION}" \
+  --node-count "${NODE_COUNT:-2}" \
+  --node-size "${NODE_SIZE:-e2-medium}" \
+  --master-size "${MASTER_SIZE:-e2-medium}" \
+  --cloud-labels "Owner=${USER},ManagedBy=kops" \
+  --networking "gce" \
+  --gce-service-account="default" \
+  --ssh-public-key="${KUBE_SSH_PUBLIC_KEY_PATH}" \
+  --admin-access="${ADMIN_ACCESS}" \
+  --add="${WORKDIR}/cloud-provider-gcp.yaml"
+
+kops update cluster "${CLUSTER_NAME}" --state "${KOPS_STATE_STORE}" --yes
+
+echo "Cluster is being created. It may take a few minutes."
+echo "You can check the status with: kops validate cluster --name ${CLUSTER_NAME} --state ${KOPS_STATE_STORE}"
+
+if [[ "${DELETE_CLUSTER:-}" == "true" ]]; then
+  # Don't delete again in trap
+  DELETE_CLUSTER=false
+fi