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. The configuration parameters are based on the terraform-google-service-accountsTerraform module.
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, |
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 |