Google Cloud Service account

• https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts

• Service accounts do not have passwords, and cannot log in via browsers or cookies.

your_key_file_name.json
  "type": "service_account"

Commands

gcloud iam
gcloud iam service-accounts --help
gcloud iam service-accounts
gcloud iam service-accounts list
gcloud iam service-accounts describe
gcloud iam service-accounts create
gcloud iam service-accounts keys create

Related

• Google Cloud IAM
• Google Cloud user account
• gcloud auth list
• gsutil config -e for service account credentials.
• gcloud auth activate-service-account
• Service accounts are considered as users for gsutil acl purposes.
• Kubernetes service account
• GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
• gsutil acl ch

See also

• Service accounts: gcloud iam service-accounts [ create | get-iam-policy | list | delete | describe | keys ], gcloud auth activate-service-account
• gcloud config [ set | list | get-value | configurations | --help ], ~/.config/gcloud/, gcloud config set account