Compute Engine IAM roles

Compute Engine has a specific set of Identity and access management (IAM) roles. Each predefined role contains a set of permissions.

When you add a new member to your project, you can use an IAM policy to give that member one or more IAM roles. Each IAM role contains permissions that grant the member access to specific resources.

To learn how to set policies at a project level, read Granting, changing, and revoking access to resources in the IAM documentation. To learn how to set policies on Compute Engine resources, read Granting access to Compute Engine resources. To learn how to assign roles to a Compute Engine service account, read Creating and enabling service accounts for instances. To learn how to create custom roles that contain any subset of permissions, read Creating and managing custom roles.

Before you begin

What is IAM?

Google Cloud offers Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM), which lets you give more granular access to specific Google Cloud resources and prevents unwanted access to other resources. IAM lets you adopt the security principle of least privilege, so you grant only the necessary access to your resources.

IAM lets you control who (identity) has what (roles) permission to which resources by setting IAM policies. IAM policies grant specific role(s) to a project member, giving the identity certain permissions. For example, for a given resource, such as a project, you can assign the roles/compute.networkAdmin role to a Google Account and that account can control network-related resources in the project, but cannot manage other resources, like instances and disks. You can also use Cloud IAM to manage the Cloud Console legacy roles granted to project team members.

Predefined Compute Engine Cloud IAM roles

With Cloud IAM, every API method in Compute Engine API requires that the identity making the API request has the appropriate permissions to use the resource. Permissions are granted by setting policies that grant roles to a member (user, group, or service account) of your project.

In addition to legacy roles (viewer, editor, owner) and custom roles, you can assign the following Compute Engine predefined roles to the members of your project.

You can grant multiple roles to a project member on the same resource. For example, if your networking team also manages firewall rules, you can grant both roles/compute.networkAdmin and roles/compute.securityAdmin to the networking team's Google group.

The following tables describe the predefined Compute Engine Cloud IAM roles, as well as the permissions contained within each role. Each role contains a set of permissions that is suitable for a specific task. For example, the first two roles grant permissions to manage instances, the network-related roles include permissions to manage network-related resources, and the security role includes permissions to manage security-related resources, like firewalls and SSL certificates.

Compute Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.admin

Full control of all Compute Engine resources.

If the user will be managing virtual machine instances that are configured to run as a service account, you must also grant the roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role.

  • compute.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Image User role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.imageUser

Permission to list and read images without having other permissions on the image. Granting the compute.imageUser role at the project level gives users the ability to list all images in the project and create resources, such as instances and persistent disks, based on images in the project.

  • compute.images.get
  • compute.images.getFromFamily
  • compute.images.list
  • compute.images.useReadOnly
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Instance Admin (beta) role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.instanceAdmin

Permissions to create, modify, and delete virtual machine instances. This includes permissions to create, modify, and delete disks, and also to configure Shielded VMBETA settings.

If the user will be managing virtual machine instances that are configured to run as a service account, you must also grant the roles/iam.serviceAccountUser role.

For example, if your company has someone who manages groups of virtual machine instances but does not manage network or security settings and does not manage instances that run as service accounts, you can grant this role on the organization, folder, or project that contains the instances, or you can grant it on individual instances.

  • compute.acceleratorTypes.*
  • compute.addresses.get
  • compute.addresses.list
  • compute.addresses.use
  • compute.autoscalers.*
  • compute.diskTypes.*
  • compute.disks.create
  • compute.disks.createSnapshot
  • compute.disks.delete
  • compute.disks.get
  • compute.disks.list
  • compute.disks.resize
  • compute.disks.setLabels
  • compute.disks.update
  • compute.disks.use
  • compute.disks.useReadOnly
  • compute.globalAddresses.get
  • compute.globalAddresses.list
  • compute.globalAddresses.use
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.images.get
  • compute.images.getFromFamily
  • compute.images.list
  • compute.images.useReadOnly
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.*
  • compute.instanceGroups.*
  • compute.instanceTemplates.*
  • compute.instances.*
  • compute.licenses.get
  • compute.licenses.list
  • compute.machineTypes.*
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.*
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • compute.networks.use
  • compute.networks.useExternalIp
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regionOperations.get
  • compute.regionOperations.list
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.reservations.get
  • compute.reservations.list
  • compute.subnetworks.get
  • compute.subnetworks.list
  • compute.subnetworks.use
  • compute.subnetworks.useExternalIp
  • compute.targetPools.get
  • compute.targetPools.list
  • compute.zoneOperations.get
  • compute.zoneOperations.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Instance Admin (v1) role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1 Full control of Compute Engine instances, instance groups, disks, snapshots, and images. Read access to all Compute Engine networking resources.

If you grant a user this role only at an instance level, then that user cannot create new instances.
  • compute.acceleratorTypes.*
  • compute.addresses.get
  • compute.addresses.list
  • compute.addresses.use
  • compute.autoscalers.*
  • compute.backendBuckets.get
  • compute.backendBuckets.list
  • compute.backendServices.get
  • compute.backendServices.list
  • compute.diskTypes.*
  • compute.disks.*
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.get
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.list
  • compute.firewalls.get
  • compute.firewalls.list
  • compute.forwardingRules.get
  • compute.forwardingRules.list
  • compute.globalAddresses.get
  • compute.globalAddresses.list
  • compute.globalAddresses.use
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.get
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.list
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.healthChecks.get
  • compute.healthChecks.list
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.get
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.list
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.get
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.list
  • compute.images.*
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.*
  • compute.instanceGroups.*
  • compute.instanceTemplates.*
  • compute.instances.*
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.get
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.list
  • compute.interconnectLocations.*
  • compute.interconnects.get
  • compute.interconnects.list
  • compute.licenseCodes.*
  • compute.licenses.*
  • compute.machineTypes.*
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.*
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • compute.networks.use
  • compute.networks.useExternalIp
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.projects.setCommonInstanceMetadata
  • compute.regionBackendServices.get
  • compute.regionBackendServices.list
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.get
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.list
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.get
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.list
  • compute.regionOperations.get
  • compute.regionOperations.list
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.reservations.get
  • compute.reservations.list
  • compute.resourcePolicies.*
  • compute.routers.get
  • compute.routers.list
  • compute.routes.get
  • compute.routes.list
  • compute.snapshots.*
  • compute.sslCertificates.get
  • compute.sslCertificates.list
  • compute.sslPolicies.get
  • compute.sslPolicies.list
  • compute.sslPolicies.listAvailableFeatures
  • compute.subnetworks.get
  • compute.subnetworks.list
  • compute.subnetworks.use
  • compute.subnetworks.useExternalIp
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.get
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.list
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.get
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.list
  • compute.targetInstances.get
  • compute.targetInstances.list
  • compute.targetPools.get
  • compute.targetPools.list
  • compute.targetSslProxies.get
  • compute.targetSslProxies.list
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.get
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.list
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.get
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.list
  • compute.urlMaps.get
  • compute.urlMaps.list
  • compute.vpnGateways.get
  • compute.vpnGateways.list
  • compute.vpnTunnels.get
  • compute.vpnTunnels.list
  • compute.zoneOperations.get
  • compute.zoneOperations.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Load Balancer Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.loadBalancerAdmin Beta

Permissions to create, modify, and delete load balancers and associate resources.

For example, if your company has a load balancing team that manages load balancers, SSL certificates for load balancers, SSL policies, and other load balancing resources, and a separate networking team that manages the rest of the networking resources, then grant the load balancing team's group the loadBalancerAdmin role.

  • compute.addresses.*
  • compute.backendBuckets.*
  • compute.backendServices.*
  • compute.forwardingRules.*
  • compute.globalAddresses.*
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.*
  • compute.healthChecks.*
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.*
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.*
  • compute.instanceGroups.*
  • compute.instances.get
  • compute.instances.list
  • compute.instances.use
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.*
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • compute.networks.use
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regionBackendServices.*
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.*
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.*
  • compute.securityPolicies.get
  • compute.securityPolicies.list
  • compute.securityPolicies.use
  • compute.sslCertificates.*
  • compute.sslPolicies.*
  • compute.subnetworks.get
  • compute.subnetworks.list
  • compute.subnetworks.use
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.*
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.*
  • compute.targetInstances.*
  • compute.targetPools.*
  • compute.targetSslProxies.*
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.*
  • compute.urlMaps.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Network Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.networkAdmin

Permissions to create, modify, and delete networking resources, except for firewall rules and SSL certificates. The network admin role allows read-only access to firewall rules, SSL certificates, and instances (to view their ephemeral IP addresses). The network admin role does not allow a user to create, start, stop, or delete instances.

For example, if your company has a security team that manages firewalls and SSL certificates and a networking team that manages the rest of the networking resources, then grant the networking team's group the networkAdmin role.

  • compute.acceleratorTypes.*
  • compute.addresses.*
  • compute.autoscalers.get
  • compute.autoscalers.list
  • compute.backendBuckets.*
  • compute.backendServices.*
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.*
  • compute.firewalls.get
  • compute.firewalls.list
  • compute.forwardingRules.*
  • compute.globalAddresses.*
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.*
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.healthChecks.*
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.*
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.*
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.get
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.list
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.update
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.use
  • compute.instanceGroups.get
  • compute.instanceGroups.list
  • compute.instanceGroups.update
  • compute.instanceGroups.use
  • compute.instances.get
  • compute.instances.getGuestAttributes
  • compute.instances.getScreenshot
  • compute.instances.getSerialPortOutput
  • compute.instances.list
  • compute.instances.listReferrers
  • compute.instances.use
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.*
  • compute.interconnectLocations.*
  • compute.interconnects.*
  • compute.machineTypes.*
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.get
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.list
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.use
  • compute.networks.*
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regionBackendServices.*
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.*
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.*
  • compute.regionOperations.get
  • compute.regionOperations.list
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.routers.*
  • compute.routes.*
  • compute.securityPolicies.get
  • compute.securityPolicies.list
  • compute.securityPolicies.use
  • compute.sslCertificates.get
  • compute.sslCertificates.list
  • compute.sslPolicies.*
  • compute.subnetworks.*
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.*
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.*
  • compute.targetInstances.*
  • compute.targetPools.*
  • compute.targetSslProxies.*
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.*
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.*
  • compute.urlMaps.*
  • compute.vpnGateways.*
  • compute.vpnTunnels.*
  • compute.zoneOperations.get
  • compute.zoneOperations.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • servicenetworking.operations.get
  • servicenetworking.services.addPeering
  • servicenetworking.services.get
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Network User role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.networkUser

Provides access to a shared VPC network

Once granted, service owners can use VPC networks and subnets that belong to the host project. For example, a network user can create a VM instance that belongs to a host project network but they cannot delete or create new networks in the host project.

  • compute.addresses.createInternal
  • compute.addresses.deleteInternal
  • compute.addresses.get
  • compute.addresses.list
  • compute.addresses.useInternal
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.get
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.list
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.use
  • compute.firewalls.get
  • compute.firewalls.list
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.get
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.list
  • compute.interconnectLocations.*
  • compute.interconnects.get
  • compute.interconnects.list
  • compute.interconnects.use
  • compute.networks.access
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • compute.networks.listPeeringRoutes
  • compute.networks.use
  • compute.networks.useExternalIp
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.routers.get
  • compute.routers.list
  • compute.routes.get
  • compute.routes.list
  • compute.subnetworks.get
  • compute.subnetworks.list
  • compute.subnetworks.use
  • compute.subnetworks.useExternalIp
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.get
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.list
  • compute.vpnGateways.get
  • compute.vpnGateways.list
  • compute.vpnGateways.use
  • compute.vpnTunnels.get
  • compute.vpnTunnels.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • servicenetworking.services.get
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Network Viewer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.networkViewer

Read-only access to all networking resources

For example, if you have software that inspects your network configuration, you could grant that software's service account the networkViewer role.

  • compute.acceleratorTypes.*
  • compute.addresses.get
  • compute.addresses.list
  • compute.autoscalers.get
  • compute.autoscalers.list
  • compute.backendBuckets.get
  • compute.backendBuckets.list
  • compute.backendServices.get
  • compute.backendServices.list
  • compute.firewalls.get
  • compute.firewalls.list
  • compute.forwardingRules.get
  • compute.forwardingRules.list
  • compute.globalAddresses.get
  • compute.globalAddresses.list
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.get
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.list
  • compute.healthChecks.get
  • compute.healthChecks.list
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.get
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.list
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.get
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.list
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.get
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.list
  • compute.instanceGroups.get
  • compute.instanceGroups.list
  • compute.instances.get
  • compute.instances.getGuestAttributes
  • compute.instances.getScreenshot
  • compute.instances.getSerialPortOutput
  • compute.instances.list
  • compute.instances.listReferrers
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.get
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.list
  • compute.interconnectLocations.*
  • compute.interconnects.get
  • compute.interconnects.list
  • compute.machineTypes.*
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • compute.networks.listPeeringRoutes
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regionBackendServices.get
  • compute.regionBackendServices.list
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.get
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.list
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.get
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.list
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.routers.get
  • compute.routers.list
  • compute.routes.get
  • compute.routes.list
  • compute.sslCertificates.get
  • compute.sslCertificates.list
  • compute.sslPolicies.get
  • compute.sslPolicies.list
  • compute.sslPolicies.listAvailableFeatures
  • compute.subnetworks.get
  • compute.subnetworks.list
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.get
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.list
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.get
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.list
  • compute.targetInstances.get
  • compute.targetInstances.list
  • compute.targetPools.get
  • compute.targetPools.list
  • compute.targetSslProxies.get
  • compute.targetSslProxies.list
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.get
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.list
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.get
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.list
  • compute.urlMaps.get
  • compute.urlMaps.list
  • compute.vpnGateways.get
  • compute.vpnGateways.list
  • compute.vpnTunnels.get
  • compute.vpnTunnels.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • servicenetworking.services.get
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Organization Security Policy Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.orgSecurityPolicyAdmin Beta Full control of Compute Engine Organization Security Policies.
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.globalOperations.setIamPolicy
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.securityPolicies.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Organization Security Policy User role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.orgSecurityPolicyUser Beta View or use Compute Engine Security Policies to associate with the organization or folders.
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.globalOperations.setIamPolicy
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.securityPolicies.get
  • compute.securityPolicies.list
  • compute.securityPolicies.use
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Organization Resource Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.orgSecurityResourceAdmin Beta Full control of Compute Engine Security Policy associations to the organization or folders.
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.globalOperations.setIamPolicy
  • compute.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute OS Admin Login role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.osAdminLogin

Access to log in to a Compute Engine instance as an administrator user.

  • compute.instances.get
  • compute.instances.list
  • compute.instances.osAdminLogin
  • compute.instances.osLogin
  • compute.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute OS Login role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.osLogin

Access to log in to a Compute Engine instance as a standard user.

  • compute.instances.get
  • compute.instances.list
  • compute.instances.osLogin
  • compute.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute OS Login External User role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.osLoginExternalUser

Available only at the organization level.

Access for an external user to set OS Login information associated with this organization. This role does not grant access to instances. External users must be granted one of the required OS Login roles in order to allow access to instances using SSH.

  • compute.oslogin.*

Compute packet mirroring admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.packetMirroringAdmin Specify resources to be mirrored.
  • compute.networks.mirror
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.subnetworks.mirror
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute packet mirroring user role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.packetMirroringUser Use Compute Engine packet mirrorings.
  • compute.packetMirrorings.*
  • compute.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Security Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.securityAdmin

Permissions to create, modify, and delete firewall rules and SSL certificates, and also to configure Shielded VMBETA settings.

For example, if your company has a security team that manages firewalls and SSL certificates and a networking team that manages the rest of the networking resources, then grant the security team's group the securityAdmin role.

  • compute.firewalls.*
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.instances.setShieldedInstanceIntegrityPolicy
  • compute.instances.setShieldedVmIntegrityPolicy
  • compute.instances.updateShieldedInstanceConfig
  • compute.instances.updateShieldedVmConfig
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • compute.networks.updatePolicy
  • compute.packetMirrorings.*
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regionOperations.get
  • compute.regionOperations.list
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.routes.get
  • compute.routes.list
  • compute.securityPolicies.*
  • compute.sslCertificates.*
  • compute.sslPolicies.*
  • compute.subnetworks.get
  • compute.subnetworks.list
  • compute.zoneOperations.get
  • compute.zoneOperations.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Storage Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.storageAdmin

Permissions to create, modify, and delete disks, images, and snapshots.

For example, if your company has someone who manages project images and you don't want them to have the editor role on the project, then grant their account the storageAdmin role on the project.

  • compute.diskTypes.*
  • compute.disks.*
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.images.*
  • compute.licenseCodes.*
  • compute.licenses.*
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regionOperations.get
  • compute.regionOperations.list
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.resourcePolicies.*
  • compute.snapshots.*
  • compute.zoneOperations.get
  • compute.zoneOperations.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Viewer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.viewer

Read-only access to get and list Compute Engine resources, without being able to read the data stored on them.

For example, an account with this role could inventory all of the disks in a project, but it could not read any of the data on those disks.

  • compute.acceleratorTypes.*
  • compute.addresses.get
  • compute.addresses.list
  • compute.autoscalers.get
  • compute.autoscalers.list
  • compute.backendBuckets.get
  • compute.backendBuckets.list
  • compute.backendServices.get
  • compute.backendServices.list
  • compute.commitments.get
  • compute.commitments.list
  • compute.diskTypes.*
  • compute.disks.get
  • compute.disks.getIamPolicy
  • compute.disks.list
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.get
  • compute.externalVpnGateways.list
  • compute.firewalls.get
  • compute.firewalls.list
  • compute.forwardingRules.get
  • compute.forwardingRules.list
  • compute.globalAddresses.get
  • compute.globalAddresses.list
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.get
  • compute.globalForwardingRules.list
  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.healthChecks.get
  • compute.healthChecks.list
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.get
  • compute.httpHealthChecks.list
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.get
  • compute.httpsHealthChecks.list
  • compute.images.get
  • compute.images.getFromFamily
  • compute.images.getIamPolicy
  • compute.images.list
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.get
  • compute.instanceGroupManagers.list
  • compute.instanceGroups.get
  • compute.instanceGroups.list
  • compute.instanceTemplates.get
  • compute.instanceTemplates.getIamPolicy
  • compute.instanceTemplates.list
  • compute.instances.get
  • compute.instances.getGuestAttributes
  • compute.instances.getIamPolicy
  • compute.instances.getScreenshot
  • compute.instances.getSerialPortOutput
  • compute.instances.getShieldedInstanceIdentity
  • compute.instances.getShieldedVmIdentity
  • compute.instances.list
  • compute.instances.listReferrers
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.get
  • compute.interconnectAttachments.list
  • compute.interconnectLocations.*
  • compute.interconnects.get
  • compute.interconnects.list
  • compute.licenseCodes.get
  • compute.licenseCodes.getIamPolicy
  • compute.licenseCodes.list
  • compute.licenses.get
  • compute.licenses.getIamPolicy
  • compute.licenses.list
  • compute.machineTypes.*
  • compute.maintenancePolicies.get
  • compute.maintenancePolicies.getIamPolicy
  • compute.maintenancePolicies.list
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.get
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.getIamPolicy
  • compute.networkEndpointGroups.list
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • compute.networks.listPeeringRoutes
  • compute.nodeGroups.get
  • compute.nodeGroups.getIamPolicy
  • compute.nodeGroups.list
  • compute.nodeTemplates.get
  • compute.nodeTemplates.getIamPolicy
  • compute.nodeTemplates.list
  • compute.nodeTypes.*
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.regionBackendServices.get
  • compute.regionBackendServices.list
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.get
  • compute.regionHealthCheckServices.list
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.get
  • compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.list
  • compute.regionOperations.get
  • compute.regionOperations.getIamPolicy
  • compute.regionOperations.list
  • compute.regions.*
  • compute.reservations.get
  • compute.reservations.list
  • compute.resourcePolicies.get
  • compute.resourcePolicies.list
  • compute.routers.get
  • compute.routers.list
  • compute.routes.get
  • compute.routes.list
  • compute.securityPolicies.get
  • compute.securityPolicies.getIamPolicy
  • compute.securityPolicies.list
  • compute.snapshots.get
  • compute.snapshots.getIamPolicy
  • compute.snapshots.list
  • compute.sslCertificates.get
  • compute.sslCertificates.list
  • compute.sslPolicies.get
  • compute.sslPolicies.list
  • compute.sslPolicies.listAvailableFeatures
  • compute.subnetworks.get
  • compute.subnetworks.getIamPolicy
  • compute.subnetworks.list
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.get
  • compute.targetHttpProxies.list
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.get
  • compute.targetHttpsProxies.list
  • compute.targetInstances.get
  • compute.targetInstances.list
  • compute.targetPools.get
  • compute.targetPools.list
  • compute.targetSslProxies.get
  • compute.targetSslProxies.list
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.get
  • compute.targetTcpProxies.list
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.get
  • compute.targetVpnGateways.list
  • compute.urlMaps.get
  • compute.urlMaps.list
  • compute.urlMaps.validate
  • compute.vpnGateways.get
  • compute.vpnGateways.list
  • compute.vpnTunnels.get
  • compute.vpnTunnels.list
  • compute.zoneOperations.get
  • compute.zoneOperations.getIamPolicy
  • compute.zoneOperations.list
  • compute.zones.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list
  • serviceusage.quotas.get
  • serviceusage.services.get
  • serviceusage.services.list

Compute Shared VPC Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/compute.xpnAdmin

Permissions to administer shared VPC host projects, specifically enabling the host projects and associating shared VPC service projects to the host project's network.

This role can only be granted on the organization by an organization admin.

Google Cloud recommends that the Shared VPC Admin be the owner of the shared VPC host project. The Shared VPC Admin is responsible for granting the compute.networkUser role to service owners, and the shared VPC host project owner controls the project itself. Managing the project is easier if a single principal (individual or group) can fulfill both roles.

  • compute.globalOperations.get
  • compute.globalOperations.list
  • compute.organizations.*
  • compute.projects.get
  • compute.subnetworks.getIamPolicy
  • compute.subnetworks.setIamPolicy
  • resourcemanager.organizations.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.getIamPolicy
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Assignment Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.assignmentAdmin Beta Full admin access to Assignments
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Assignment Editor role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.assignmentEditor Beta Editor of Assignment resources
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Assignment Viewer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.assignmentViewer Beta Viewer of Assignment resources
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

GuestPolicy Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.guestPolicyAdmin Beta Full admin access to GuestPolicies
  • osconfig.guestPolicies.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

GuestPolicy Editor role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.guestPolicyEditor Beta Editor of GuestPolicy resources
  • osconfig.guestPolicies.get
  • osconfig.guestPolicies.list
  • osconfig.guestPolicies.update
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

GuestPolicy Viewer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.guestPolicyViewer Beta Viewer of GuestPolicy resources
  • osconfig.guestPolicies.get
  • osconfig.guestPolicies.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

OsConfig Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.osConfigAdmin Beta Full admin access to OsConfigs
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

OsConfig Editor role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.osConfigEditor Beta Editor of OsConfig resources
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

OsConfig Viewer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.osConfigViewer Beta Viewer of OsConfig resources
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

PatchDeployment Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.patchDeploymentAdmin Beta Full admin access to PatchDeployments
  • osconfig.patchDeployments.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

PatchDeployment Viewer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.patchDeploymentViewer Beta Viewer of PatchDeployment resources
  • osconfig.patchDeployments.get
  • osconfig.patchDeployments.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Patch Job Executor role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.patchJobExecutor Beta Access to execute Patch Jobs.
  • osconfig.patchJobs.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Patch Job Viewer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/osconfig.patchJobViewer Beta Get and list Patch Jobs.
  • osconfig.patchJobs.get
  • osconfig.patchJobs.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

DNS Administrator role

Name Description Permissions
roles/dns.admin Provides read-write access to all Cloud DNS resources.
  • compute.networks.get
  • compute.networks.list
  • dns.changes.*
  • dns.dnsKeys.*
  • dns.managedZoneOperations.*
  • dns.managedZones.*
  • dns.networks.*
  • dns.policies.create
  • dns.policies.delete
  • dns.policies.get
  • dns.policies.list
  • dns.policies.update
  • dns.projects.*
  • dns.resourceRecordSets.*
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

DNS Peer role

Name Description Permissions
roles/dns.peer Access to target networks with DNS peering zones
  • dns.networks.targetWithPeeringZone

DNS Reader role

Name Description Permissions
roles/dns.reader Provides read-only access to all Cloud DNS resources.
  • compute.networks.get
  • dns.changes.get
  • dns.changes.list
  • dns.dnsKeys.*
  • dns.managedZoneOperations.*
  • dns.managedZones.get
  • dns.managedZones.list
  • dns.policies.get
  • dns.policies.list
  • dns.projects.*
  • dns.resourceRecordSets.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Service Account Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin Create and manage service accounts.
  • iam.serviceAccounts.create
  • iam.serviceAccounts.delete
  • iam.serviceAccounts.get
  • iam.serviceAccounts.getIamPolicy
  • iam.serviceAccounts.list
  • iam.serviceAccounts.setIamPolicy
  • iam.serviceAccounts.update
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Create Service Accounts role

Name Description Permissions
roles/iam.serviceAccountCreator Access to create service accounts.
  • iam.serviceAccounts.create
  • iam.serviceAccounts.get
  • iam.serviceAccounts.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Delete Service Accounts role

Name Description Permissions
roles/iam.serviceAccountDeleter Access to delete service accounts.
  • iam.serviceAccounts.delete
  • iam.serviceAccounts.get
  • iam.serviceAccounts.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Service Account Key Admin role

Name Description Permissions
roles/iam.serviceAccountKeyAdmin Create and manage (and rotate) service account keys.
  • iam.serviceAccountKeys.*
  • iam.serviceAccounts.get
  • iam.serviceAccounts.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Service Account Token Creator role

Name Description Permissions
roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator Impersonate service accounts (create OAuth2 access tokens, sign blobs or JWTs, etc).
  • iam.serviceAccounts.get
  • iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken
  • iam.serviceAccounts.getOpenIdToken
  • iam.serviceAccounts.implicitDelegation
  • iam.serviceAccounts.list
  • iam.serviceAccounts.signBlob
  • iam.serviceAccounts.signJwt
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Service Account User role

Name Description Permissions
roles/iam.serviceAccountUser Run operations as the service account.
  • iam.serviceAccounts.actAs
  • iam.serviceAccounts.get
  • iam.serviceAccounts.list
  • resourcemanager.projects.get
  • resourcemanager.projects.list

Workload Identity User role

Name Description Permissions
roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser Impersonate service accounts from GKE Workloads
  • iam.serviceAccounts.get
  • iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken
  • iam.serviceAccounts.getOpenIdToken
  • iam.serviceAccounts.list

The serviceAccountUser role

When granted together with roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1, roles/iam.serviceAccountUser gives members the ability to create and manage instances that use a service account. Specifically, granting roles/iam.serviceAccountUser and roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1 together gives members permission to:

  • Create an instance that runs as a service account.
  • Attach a persistent disk to an instance that runs as a service account.
  • Set instance metadata on an instance that runs as a service account.
  • Use SSH to connect to an instance that runs as a service account.
  • Reconfigure an instance to run as a service account.

You can grant roles/iam.serviceAccountUser one of two ways:

  • Recommended. Grant the role to a member on a specific service account. This gives a member access to the service account for which they are an iam.serviceAccountUser but prevents access to other service accounts for which the member is not an iam.serviceAccountUser.

  • Grant the role to a member on the project level. The member has access to all service accounts in the project, including service accounts that are created in the future.

If you aren't familiar with service accounts, learn more about service accounts.

Connecting to an instance as an instanceAdmin

After you grant a project member the roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1 role, they can connect to virtual machine (VM) instances by using standard Google Cloud tools, like the gcloud tool or SSH from the Browser.

When a member uses the gcloud command-line tool or SSH from the browser, the tools automatically generate a public/private key pair and add the public key to the project metadata. If the member does not have permissions to edit project metadata, the tool adds the member's public key to the instance metadata instead.

If the member has an existing key pair they want to use, they can manually add their public key to the instance's metadata. Learn more about adding or removing SSH keys from an instance.

IAM with service accounts

Create new custom service accounts and grant Cloud IAM roles to service accounts to limit the access of your instances. Use Cloud IAM roles with custom service accounts to:

  • Limit the access your instances have to Google Cloud APIs using granular Cloud IAM roles.
  • Give each instance, or set of instances, a unique identity.
  • Limit the access of your default service account.

Learn more about service accounts.

Managed instance groups and Cloud IAM

Managed instance groups, especially when configured to be autoscaled, are resources that perform actions on your behalf without direct user interaction. Managed instance groups use a service account identity to create, delete, and manage instances in the instance group. For more information, read the managed instance groups and Cloud IAM documentation.

Unsupported operations

You cannot grant access to perform rolling updates on instance groups using Cloud IAM roles.

To grant permission to perform these operations, use the broader owner, editor, or viewer roles.

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