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, you can create an account with gcloud iam service-accounts create and generate access keys with gcloud iam service-accounts keys create command.

Create service account:

• gcloud iam service-accounts create

Create login keys for service account:

• gcloud iam service-accounts keys create

See: your_key_file_name.json, "type": "service_account"

Login into a service account using generated keys:

• gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=your_key_file_name.json

Commands

• 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
• type: kubernetes.io/service-account-token

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