The Actions feature is an alpha feature that expands the range of API methods that Deployment Manager can call. Because this feature is unsupported, we recommend that you migrate your existing usage of Actions to supported alternatives. The commonly-used Action storage.buckets.setIamPolicy corresponds to an existing Deployment Manager resource type, virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding, which you can use to replace it.

Migrating your deployment from storage.buckets.setIamPolicy to virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding

The virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding resource is a virtual resource that represents an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy binding. Its full type is gcp-types/storage-v1:virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding.

virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding has a custom implementation of the create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations from the Deployment Manager backend. It calls a similar method to the method called by the Action storage.buckets.setIamPolicy, but it is modeled as a normal resource instead of an Action, and it follows the same lifecycle as a normal resource type.

To migrate your deployment, replace your usage of the Action storage.buckets.setIamPolicy with the resource virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding in all of your deployment configuration files. If you have multiple bindings, you might need multiple resources to implement the same logic across them. The virtual type doesn't replace any existing bindings on a resource, but patches the new ones in.

Usage examples for migrating manually

To complete the migration manually, refer to the following usage examples. In certain cases, such as the application of multiple IAM bindings, you might need to add metadata.dependsOn or references to other resources to the iamMemberBinding resource to avoid situations such as race conditions.

- name: patch-iam-policy
  action: gcp-types/storage-v1:storage.buckets.setIamPolicy
  properties:
    bucket:
    policy: # existing policy, e.g. from a getIamPolicyAction
    gcpIamPolicyPatch:
      add:

{% set BUCKETNAME = "bucket-" + env["deployment"] %}

resources:
- type: gcp-types/storage-v1:buckets
  name: {{ BUCKETNAME }}
  properties:
  location: US
    storageClass: STANDARD
- type: gcp-types/storage-v1:virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding
  name: test-bucket-iam
  properties:
    bucket: $(ref.{{ BUCKETNAME }}.name)
    member: projectEditor:{{ env["project"] }}
    role: roles/storage.admin

resources.append({
        'name': 'add-iam-policy',
        'action': 'gcp-types/storage-v1:storage.buckets.setIamPolicy',
        'properties': {
            'bucket': gcs_bucket,
            'userProject': project,
            'policy': '$(ref.get-iam-policy)',
            'gcpIamPolicyPatch': {
                'add': [{
                    'roles':
                        'roles/storage.objectViewer',
                    'members': [
                        'serviceAccount:$(ref.%s.serviceAccount)' % tpu_name
                    ]
                }]
            }
        }
    })

iam_policy_resource = {
    'name': policy_name,
    'type': 'gcp-types/storage-v1:virtual.buckets.iamMemberBinding',
    'properties':
        {
           'bucket': '$(ref.{}.name)'.format(context.env['name']),
           'role': role['role'],
           'member': member,
         }
}

You can find additional samples related to the gcs-bucket.py template in the cloud-foundation-toolkit repository on GitHub. For a detailed demonstration of the process of converting the gcs-bucket.py template from using the Action setIamPolicy to using the virtual resource iamMemberBinding, refer to the example conversion. You can also find usage examples of the converted template.