What are Google service accounts?
A service account is a special type of Google account intended to represent a non-human user that needs to authenticate and be authorized to access data in Google APIs. Typically, service accounts are used in scenarios such as: Running workloads on virtual machines (VMs).
How do I know if my service account is being used by GCP?
View usage metrics for a single service account
- In the Cloud Console, go to the Service Accounts page. Go to Service Accounts.
- Select the project that contains your service account.
- Click the email address of your service account.
- Copy the service account’s unique numeric ID from the Unique ID field.
Do Google service account keys expire?
Use uploaded keys to let keys expire automatically Service account keys that you create and download from IAM don’t have an expiry date and stay valid until you delete them.
How do I enable GCP service account?
- In the Cloud Console, go to the VM instances page. Go to VM instances.
- Click Create instance.
- On the Create a new instance page, fill in the properties for your instance.
- In the Identity and API Access section, choose the service account you want to use from the drop-down list.
- Click Create to create the instance.
What is the default service account?
By default, the default service account in a namespace has no permissions other than those of an unauthenticated user. Therefore pods by default can’t even view cluster state. Its up to you to grant them appropriate permissions to do that.
How are service accounts identified in Google Cloud?
This way the service account is the identity of the service, and the service account’s permissions control which resources the service can access. A service account is identified by its email address, which is unique to the account.
How is Google Compute Engine default service account created?
Google creates the Compute Engine default service account and adds it to your project automatically but you have full control over the account. The Compute Engine default service account is created with the IAM project editor role, but you can modify the service account’s roles to securely limit which Google APIs the service account can access.
How to authenticate to a Google service account?
A user or service can generate external private key material (RSA) that can be used to authenticate directly to Google as the service account. This key material can then be used with Application Default Credentials (ADC) libraries, or with the gcloud auth activate-service-account command.
Where do I find my Google Cloud credentials?
Google Cloud Client Libraries use a library called Application Default Credentials (ADC) to automatically find your service account credentials. ADC looks for service account credentials in the following order: