Fixing gcloud WARNING: `docker-credential-gcloud` not in system PATH

Problem:

You want to configure docker to be able to access Google Container Registry using

gcloud auth configure-docker

but you see this warning message:

WARNING: `docker-credential-gcloud` not in system PATH.
gcloud's Docker credential helper can be configured but it will not work until this is corrected.
gcloud credential helpers already registered correctly.

Solution

Install docker-credential-gcloud using

sudo gcloud components install docker-credential-gcr

In case you see this error message:

ERROR: (gcloud.components.install) You cannot perform this action because this Cloud SDK installation is managed by an external package manager.
Please consider using a separate installation of the Cloud SDK created through the default mechanism described at: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/

use this alternate installation command instead (this command is for Linux, see the official documentation for other operating systems):

VERSION=1.5.0
OS=linux
ARCH=amd64

curl -fsSL "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/docker-credential-gcr/releases/download/v${VERSION}/docker-credential-gcr_${OS}_${ARCH}-${VERSION}.tar.gz" \
  | tar xz --to-stdout ./docker-credential-gcr \
  | sudo tee /usr/bin/docker-credential-gcr > /dev/null && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-credential-gcr

After that, configure docker using

docker-credential-gcr configure-docker

Now you can retry running your original command.

For reference, see the official documentation.