Configure a service account in Application Design Center

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.

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 App Hub service project where you want to create the service account resource.

Set up App Hub

Name

An identifier that must be between 6 and 30 characters. Can contain lowercase alphanumeric characters and dashes. For example, my-service-account.

Create service accounts

Display Name

A user-readable name for the service account.

Create service accounts

Description

A user-readable description.

Create service accounts

Optional configuration parameters

The following parameters are optional. To display advanced parameters, in the Configuration area, select Show advanced fields.

Feature

Parameter name

Description and constraint information

Background information

Project roles Choose predefined roles Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations