- NAME
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- gcloud iam roles describe - show metadata for a role
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud iam roles describeROLE_ID[--organization=ORGANIZATION|--project=PROJECT_ID] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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This command shows metadata for a role.
This command can fail for the following reasons:
- The role specified does not exist.
- The active user does not have permission to access the given role.
- EXAMPLES
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To print metadata for the role
of the organizationspanner.databaseAdmin, run:1234567gcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.databaseAdmin --organization=1234567To print metadata for the role
of the projectspanner.databaseAdmin, run:myprojectgcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.databaseAdmin --project=myprojectTo print metadata for a predefined role,
, run:spanner.databaseAdmingcloud iam roles describe roles/spanner.databaseAdmin - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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ROLE_ID-
ID of the role to describe. Curated roles example: roles/viewer. Custom roles
example: CustomRole. For custom roles, you must also specify the
--organizationor--projectflag.
- FLAGS
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At most one of these can be specified:
--organization=ORGANIZATION- Organization of the role you want to describe.
--project=PROJECT_ID-
Project of the role you want to describe.
The Google Cloud project ID to use for this invocation. If omitted, then the current project is assumed; the current project can be listed using
gcloud config list --format='text(core.project)'and can be set usinggcloud config set project PROJECTID.--projectand its fallbackcore/projectproperty play two roles in the invocation. It specifies the project of the resource to operate on. It also specifies the project for API enablement check, quota, and billing. To specify a different project for quota and billing, use--billing-projectorbilling/quota_projectproperty.
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At most one of these can be specified:
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
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These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$ gcloud helpfor details. - NOTES
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These variants are also available:
gcloud alpha iam roles describegcloud beta iam roles describe
gcloud iam roles describe
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.