Identity and Access Management (IAM)

This page describes how you can control Vertex AI Search for retail access and permissions using Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Overview

Google Cloud offers Identity and Access Management (IAM), which lets you give more granular access to specific Google Cloud resources and prevents unwanted access to other resources. This page describes the Vertex AI Search for retail IAM roles and permissions. For a detailed description of Google Cloud IAM, see the IAM documentation.

Vertex AI Search for retail provides a set of predefined roles designed to help you easily control access to your Vertex AI Search for retail resources. You can also create your own custom roles, if the predefined roles do not provide the sets of permissions you need. In addition, the older basic roles (Editor, Viewer, and Owner) are also still available to you, although they do not provide the same fine-grained control as the Vertex AI Search for retail roles. In particular, the basic roles provide access to resources across Google Cloud rather than just for Vertex AI Search for retail. See the basic roles documentation for more information.

Predefined roles

The Vertex AI Search for retail provides some predefined roles you can use to provide finer-grained permissions to principals. The role you grant to a principal controls what actions the principal can take. Principals can be individuals, groups, or service accounts.

You can grant multiple roles to the same principal, and you can change the roles granted to a principal at any time, provided you have the permissions to do so.

The broader roles include the more narrowly defined roles. For example, the Retail Editor role includes all of the permissions of the Retail Viewer role, along with the addition permissions of the Retail Editor role. Likewise, the Retail Admin role includes all of the permissions of the Retail Editor role, along with its additional permissions.

The basic roles (Owner, Editor, Viewer) provide permissions across Google Cloud. The roles specific to Vertex AI Search for retail provide only Vertex AI Search for retail permissions, except for the following Google Cloud (Google Cloud) permissions, which are needed for general Google Cloud usage:

  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.services.list
  • serviceusage.services.get

The following table lists the predefined roles available for Vertex AI Search for retail, along with their Vertex AI Search for retail permissions:

Name Vertex AI Search for retail permissions Description
Project > Owner All retail permissions Full access and control for all Google Cloud resources; manage user access and set up billing for a project.
Project > Editor All retail permissions except the permissions in the Retail Admin role. Read-write access to all Google Cloud and Vertex AI Search for retail resources (except the ability to modify permissions and billing).
Project > Viewer retail.*.get
retail.*.list
 Read-only access to all Google Cloud resources, including Vertex AI Search for retail resources.
Retail Admin retail.retailProjects.acceptDataTerms
retail.products.purge
retail.products.setSponsorship
retail.userEvents.purge
retail.userEvents.rejoin
retail.attributesConfigs.removeCatalogAttribute
retail.attributesConfigs.batchRemoveCatalogAttributes

This role also includes all permissions in the Retail Editor and Retail Viewer roles.		 Full control for all Vertex AI Search for retail resources.
Retail Editor retail.catalogs.import
retail.catalogs.update
retail.products.create
retail.products.delete
retail.products.update
retail.products.import
retail.userEvents.create
retail.userEvents.import
retail.servingConfigs.create
retail.servingConfigs.update
retail.servingConfigs.delete
retail.controls.create
retail.controls.update
retail.controls.delete
retail.controls.import
retail.controls.export
retail.attributesConfigs.update
retail.attributesConfigs.addCatalogAttribute
retail.attributesConfigs.importCatalogAttributes
retail.attributesConfigs.exportCatalogAttributes
retail.attributesConfigs.replaceCatalogAttribute
retail.completionConfigs.update
retail.models.create
retail.models.delete
retail.models.update
retail.models.pause
retail.models.resume
retail.loggingConfigs.update

This role also includes all permissions in the Retail Viewer role.		 Can read all Vertex AI Search for retail resources and write products, events, and other resources.
Retail Viewer retail.retailProjects.get
retail.attributesConfigs.exportCatalogAttributes
retail.catalogs.completeQuery
retail.catalogs.listProductAttributes
retail.controls.export
retail.placements.search
retail.placements.predict
retail.products.export
retail.userEvents.export
retail.*.get
retail.*.list
 Read-only access to all Vertex AI Search for retail resources.

Migrate permissions from the Recommendations AI API

If you are migrating from the previous Recommendations Engine API to Vertex AI Search for retail, note that the following predefined roles also include permissions for the previous API.

  • Retail Admin: Includes all the permissions of Recommendations Admin, except for apiKeys permissions.
  • Retail Editor: Includes all the permissions of Recommendations Editor, as well as catalog.update, and excluding apiKeys permissions.
  • Retail Viewer: Includes all the permissions of Recommendations Viewer.

Manage Vertex AI Search for retail IAM

You can get and set IAM allow policies and IAM roles using the Google Cloud Console, the IAM methods of the API, or Vertex AI Search for retail. For more information, see Granting, Changing, and Revoking Access.

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