Configure a service account in Application Design Center

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A service account is a special kind of account used by an application or compute workload, such as a Compute Engine instance, rather than a person. A service account is identified by its email address, which is unique to the account.

For more information, see Service accounts overview.

This document describes the parameters you can configure when using App Design Center to create a service account.

Required configuration parameters

If your template includes a service account component, you must configure the following parameters before you deploy.

Parameter name	Description and constraints	Background information
Project ID	The project where you want to create the service account resource.	Configure components
Name	An identifier that must be between 6 and 30 characters. Can contain lowercase alphanumeric characters and dashes. For example, my-service-account.	Create service accounts

Optional configuration parameters

The following parameters are optional. To display advanced parameters, in the Configuration area, select Show advanced fields.

Parameter name	Description and constraint information	Background information
Display Name	A user-readable name for the service account.	Create service accounts
Description	A user-readable description.	Create service accounts
Project roles	project_roles	Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations