'ERROR: gcloud crashed (ModuleNotFoundError): No module named 'distutils.spawn'

I have been deploying my service on App Engine for a long time now and never had an issue until today.

Command to Deploy

gcloud app deploy app.yaml

Output

Beginning deployment of service [default]...
Building and pushing image for service [default]
ERROR: gcloud crashed (ModuleNotFoundError): No module named 'distutils.spawn'

I just deployed this morning with no issues and randomly when I tried to redeploy now I get the above error. Hopefully someone can help figure out what caused this issue.

For info:

app.yaml

runtime: custom
env: flex
manual_scaling:
  instances: 1
resources:
  cpu: 1
  memory_gb: 4
  disk_size_gb: 10

Gcloud version

$ gcloud --version
Google Cloud SDK 341.0.0
alpha 2021.05.14
beta 2021.05.14
bq 2.0.68
core 2021.05.14
gsutil 4.62
minikube 1.20.0
skaffold 1.23.0

gcloud

Solution 1:^[1]

I had a similar issue, on my case this was the solution:

sudo apt-get install python3-distutils

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