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IAM policy for service account

When managing IAM roles, you can treat a service account either as a resource or as an identity. This resource is to add iam policy bindings to a service account resource, such as allowing the members to run operations as or modify the service account. To configure permissions for a service account on other GCP resources, use the google_project_iam set of resources.

Three different resources help you manage your IAM policy for a service account. Each of these resources serves a different use case:

  • googleServiceAccountIamPolicy: Authoritative. Sets the IAM policy for the service account and replaces any existing policy already attached.
  • googleServiceAccountIamBinding: Authoritative for a given role. Updates the IAM policy to grant a role to a list of members. Other roles within the IAM policy for the service account are preserved.
  • googleServiceAccountIamMember: Non-authoritative. Updates the IAM policy to grant a role to a new member. Other members for the role for the service account are preserved.

\~> Note: googleServiceAccountIamPolicy cannot be used in conjunction with googleServiceAccountIamBinding and googleServiceAccountIamMember or they will fight over what your policy should be.

\~> Note: googleServiceAccountIamBinding resources can be used in conjunction with googleServiceAccountIamMember resources only if they do not grant privilege to the same role.

googleServiceAccountIamPolicy

/*Provider bindings are generated by running cdktf get.
See https://cdk.tf/provider-generation for more details.*/
import * as google from "./.gen/providers/google";
/*The following providers are missing schema information and might need manual adjustments to synthesize correctly: google.
For a more precise conversion please use the --provider flag in convert.*/
const googleServiceAccountSa = new google.serviceAccount.ServiceAccount(
  this,
  "sa",
  {
    account_id: "my-service-account",
    display_name: "A service account that only Jane can interact with",
  }
);
const dataGoogleIamPolicyAdmin =
  new google.dataGoogleIamPolicy.DataGoogleIamPolicy(this, "admin", {
    binding: [
      {
        members: ["user:jane@example.com"],
        role: "roles/iam.serviceAccountUser",
      },
    ],
  });
new google.serviceAccountIamPolicy.ServiceAccountIamPolicy(
  this,
  "admin-account-iam",
  {
    policy_data: dataGoogleIamPolicyAdmin.policyData,
    service_account_id: googleServiceAccountSa.name,
  }
);

googleServiceAccountIamBinding

/*Provider bindings are generated by running cdktf get.
See https://cdk.tf/provider-generation for more details.*/
import * as google from "./.gen/providers/google";
/*The following providers are missing schema information and might need manual adjustments to synthesize correctly: google.
For a more precise conversion please use the --provider flag in convert.*/
const googleServiceAccountSa = new google.serviceAccount.ServiceAccount(
  this,
  "sa",
  {
    account_id: "my-service-account",
    display_name: "A service account that only Jane can use",
  }
);
new google.serviceAccountIamBinding.ServiceAccountIamBinding(
  this,
  "admin-account-iam",
  {
    members: ["user:jane@example.com"],
    role: "roles/iam.serviceAccountUser",
    service_account_id: googleServiceAccountSa.name,
  }
);

With IAM Conditions:

/*Provider bindings are generated by running cdktf get.
See https://cdk.tf/provider-generation for more details.*/
import * as google from "./.gen/providers/google";
/*The following providers are missing schema information and might need manual adjustments to synthesize correctly: google.
For a more precise conversion please use the --provider flag in convert.*/
const googleServiceAccountSa = new google.serviceAccount.ServiceAccount(
  this,
  "sa",
  {
    account_id: "my-service-account",
    display_name: "A service account that only Jane can use",
  }
);
new google.serviceAccountIamBinding.ServiceAccountIamBinding(
  this,
  "admin-account-iam",
  {
    condition: [
      {
        description: "Expiring at midnight of 2019-12-31",
        expression: 'request.time < timestamp("2020-01-01T00:00:00Z")',
        title: "expires_after_2019_12_31",
      },
    ],
    members: ["user:jane@example.com"],
    role: "roles/iam.serviceAccountUser",
    service_account_id: googleServiceAccountSa.name,
  }
);

googleServiceAccountIamMember

/*Provider bindings are generated by running cdktf get.
See https://cdk.tf/provider-generation for more details.*/
import * as google from "./.gen/providers/google";
/*The following providers are missing schema information and might need manual adjustments to synthesize correctly: google.
For a more precise conversion please use the --provider flag in convert.*/
const googleServiceAccountSa = new google.serviceAccount.ServiceAccount(
  this,
  "sa",
  {
    account_id: "my-service-account",
    display_name: "A service account that Jane can use",
  }
);
new google.serviceAccountIamMember.ServiceAccountIamMember(
  this,
  "admin-account-iam",
  {
    member: "user:jane@example.com",
    role: "roles/iam.serviceAccountUser",
    service_account_id: googleServiceAccountSa.name,
  }
);
const dataGoogleComputeDefaultServiceAccountDefault =
  new google.dataGoogleComputeDefaultServiceAccount.DataGoogleComputeDefaultServiceAccount(
    this,
    "default",
    {}
  );
new google.serviceAccountIamMember.ServiceAccountIamMember(
  this,
  "gce-default-account-iam",
  {
    member: `serviceAccount:\${${googleServiceAccountSa.email}}`,
    role: "roles/iam.serviceAccountUser",
    service_account_id: dataGoogleComputeDefaultServiceAccountDefault.name,
  }
);

With IAM Conditions:

/*Provider bindings are generated by running cdktf get.
See https://cdk.tf/provider-generation for more details.*/
import * as google from "./.gen/providers/google";
/*The following providers are missing schema information and might need manual adjustments to synthesize correctly: google.
For a more precise conversion please use the --provider flag in convert.*/
const googleServiceAccountSa = new google.serviceAccount.ServiceAccount(
  this,
  "sa",
  {
    account_id: "my-service-account",
    display_name: "A service account that Jane can use",
  }
);
new google.serviceAccountIamMember.ServiceAccountIamMember(
  this,
  "admin-account-iam",
  {
    condition: [
      {
        description: "Expiring at midnight of 2019-12-31",
        expression: 'request.time < timestamp("2020-01-01T00:00:00Z")',
        title: "expires_after_2019_12_31",
      },
    ],
    member: "user:jane@example.com",
    role: "roles/iam.serviceAccountUser",
    service_account_id: googleServiceAccountSa.name,
  }
);

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

  • serviceAccountId - (Required) The fully-qualified name of the service account to apply policy to.

  • member/members - (Required) Identities that will be granted the privilege in role. Each entry can have one of the following values:

    • allUsers: A special identifier that represents anyone who is on the internet; with or without a Google account.
    • allAuthenticatedUsers: A special identifier that represents anyone who is authenticated with a Google account or a service account.
    • user:{emailid}: An email address that represents a specific Google account. For example, alice@gmail.com or joe@example.com.
    • serviceAccount:{emailid}: An email address that represents a service account. For example, my-other-app@appspot.gserviceaccount.com.
    • group:{emailid}: An email address that represents a Google group. For example, admins@example.com.
    • domain:{domain}: A G Suite domain (primary, instead of alias) name that represents all the users of that domain. For example, google.com or example.com.
  • role - (Required) The role that should be applied. Only one googleServiceAccountIamBinding can be used per role. Note that custom roles must be of the format [projects|organizations]/{parentName}/roles/{roleName}.

  • policyData - (Required only by googleServiceAccountIamPolicy) The policy data generated by a googleIamPolicy data source.

  • condition - (Optional) An IAM Condition for a given binding. Structure is documented below.

The condition block supports:

  • expression - (Required) Textual representation of an expression in Common Expression Language syntax.

  • title - (Required) A title for the expression, i.e. a short string describing its purpose.

  • description - (Optional) An optional description of the expression. This is a longer text which describes the expression, e.g. when hovered over it in a UI.

\~> Warning: Terraform considers the role and condition contents (title+description+expression) as the identifier for the binding. This means that if any part of the condition is changed out-of-band, Terraform will consider it to be an entirely different resource and will treat it as such.

Attributes Reference

In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are exported:

  • etag - (Computed) The etag of the service account IAM policy.

Import

Service account IAM resources can be imported using the project, service account email, role, member identity, and condition (beta).

$ terraform import google_service_account_iam_policy.admin-account-iam projects/{your-project-id}/serviceAccounts/{your-service-account-email}

$ terraform import google_service_account_iam_binding.admin-account-iam "projects/{your-project-id}/serviceAccounts/{your-service-account-email} roles/iam.serviceAccountUser"

$ terraform import google_service_account_iam_member.admin-account-iam "projects/{your-project-id}/serviceAccounts/{your-service-account-email} roles/editor user:foo@example.com"

-> Custom Roles: If you're importing a IAM resource with a custom role, make sure to use the full name of the custom role, e.g. [projects/myProject|organizations/myOrg]/roles/myCustomRole.

With conditions:

$ terraform import google_service_account_iam_binding.admin-account-iam "projects/{your-project-id}/serviceAccounts/{your-service-account-email} roles/iam.serviceAccountUser expires_after_2019_12_31"

$ terraform import google_service_account_iam_member.admin-account-iam "projects/{your-project-id}/serviceAccounts/{your-service-account-email} roles/iam.serviceAccountUser user:foo@example.com expires_after_2019_12_31"