Compute Engine IAM roles and permissions

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

Compute Engine has a set of predefined IAM roles that are described on this page. You can also create custom roles that contain subsets of permissions that map directly to your needs.

To learn which permissions are required for each method, see the Compute Engine API reference documentation:

• Compute Engine v1 API reference
• Compute Engine beta API reference

For information about granting access, see the following pages.

• To set IAM policies at a project level, see Granting, changing, and revoking access to resources in the IAM documentation.
• To set policies on specific Compute Engine resources, read Granting access to Compute Engine resources.
• To assign roles to a Compute Engine service account, read Creating and enabling service accounts for instances.

Before you begin

• Read the IAM documentation.

What is IAM?

Google Cloud offers 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 that 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 IAM to manage the Cloud Console legacy roles granted to project team members.

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.

Google Cloud Console permission

To use the Google Cloud Console to access Compute Engine resources, you must have a role that contains the following permission on the project:

compute.projects.get

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 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 SSH keys to an instance.

IAM with service accounts

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

• Limit the access your instances have to Google Cloud APIs using granular 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 IAM

Managed instance groups (MIGs) are resources that perform actions on your behalf without direct user interaction. For example, the MIG can add and remove VMs from the group.

All of the operations performed by Compute Engine as part of the MIG are performed by the Google APIs Service Agent for your project, which has an email address like the following: [e-mail]

By default, the Google APIs Service Agent is granted the Editor role (roles/editor) at the project level, which gives enough privileges to create resources based on the MIG's configuration. If you're customizing access for the Google APIs Service Agent, then grant the Compute Instance Admin (v1) role (roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1) and, optionally, the Service Account User role (roles/iam.serviceAccountUser). The Service Account User role is required only if the MIG creates VMs that can run as a service account.

Note that the Google APIs Service Agent is also used by other processes, including Deployment Manager.

When you create a MIG or update its instance template, Compute Engine validates that the Google APIs Service Agent has the following role and permissions:

• Service Account User role, which is important if you plan to create instances that can run as a service account
• Permissions to all the resources referenced from instance templates, such as images, disks, VPC networks, and subnets

Predefined Compute Engine IAM roles

With 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 basic 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 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 Instance Admin 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 this 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 VM 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.createInternal compute.addresses.deleteInternal compute.addresses.get compute.addresses.list compute.addresses.use compute.addresses.useInternal 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.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.* 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.machineImages.* compute.machineTypes.* compute.networkEndpointGroups.* compute.networks.get compute.networks.list compute.networks.use compute.networks.useExternalIp compute.projects.get compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.* 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.createInternal compute.addresses.deleteInternal compute.addresses.get compute.addresses.list compute.addresses.use compute.addresses.useInternal 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.globalForwardingRules.pscGet compute.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.* 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.machineImages.* 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.regionHealthChecks.get compute.regionHealthChecks.list compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.* compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.get compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.list compute.regionOperations.get compute.regionOperations.list compute.regionSslCertificates.get compute.regionSslCertificates.list compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.get compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.list compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.get compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.list compute.regionUrlMaps.get compute.regionUrlMaps.list compute.regions.* compute.reservations.get compute.reservations.list compute.resourcePolicies.* compute.routers.get compute.routers.list compute.routes.get compute.routes.list compute.serviceAttachments.get compute.serviceAttachments.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.targetGrpcProxies.get compute.targetGrpcProxies.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.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 this role to the load balancing team's group.	compute.addresses.* compute.backendBuckets.* compute.backendServices.* compute.disks.listTagBindings compute.forwardingRules.* compute.globalAddresses.* compute.globalForwardingRules.* compute.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.* compute.healthChecks.* compute.httpHealthChecks.* compute.httpsHealthChecks.* compute.images.listTagBindings compute.instanceGroups.* compute.instances.get compute.instances.list compute.instances.use compute.instances.useReadOnly compute.networkEndpointGroups.* compute.networks.get compute.networks.list compute.networks.use compute.projects.get compute.regionBackendServices.* compute.regionHealthCheckServices.* compute.regionHealthChecks.* compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.* compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.* compute.regionSslCertificates.* compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.* compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.* compute.regionUrlMaps.* compute.securityPolicies.get compute.securityPolicies.list compute.securityPolicies.use compute.snapshots.listTagBindings compute.sslCertificates.* compute.sslPolicies.* compute.subnetworks.get compute.subnetworks.list compute.subnetworks.use compute.targetGrpcProxies.* compute.targetHttpProxies.* compute.targetHttpsProxies.* compute.targetInstances.* compute.targetPools.* compute.targetSslProxies.* compute.targetTcpProxies.* compute.urlMaps.* networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.get networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.list networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.use networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.get networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.list networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.use resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list serviceusage.quotas.get serviceusage.services.get serviceusage.services.list

Compute Load Balancer Services User role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/compute.loadBalancerServiceUser ^Beta	Permissions to use services from a load balancer in other projects.	compute.backendServices.get compute.backendServices.list compute.backendServices.use compute.projects.get compute.regionBackendServices.get compute.regionBackendServices.list compute.regionBackendServices.use 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 this role to the networking team's group.	compute.acceleratorTypes.* compute.addresses.* compute.autoscalers.get compute.autoscalers.list compute.backendBuckets.* compute.backendServices.* compute.disks.listTagBindings compute.externalVpnGateways.* compute.firewallPolicies.get compute.firewallPolicies.list compute.firewallPolicies.use compute.firewalls.get compute.firewalls.list compute.forwardingRules.* compute.globalAddresses.* compute.globalForwardingRules.* compute.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.get compute.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.list compute.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.use compute.globalOperations.get compute.globalOperations.list compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.delete compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.get compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.list compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.update compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.updatePolicy compute.healthChecks.* compute.httpHealthChecks.* compute.httpsHealthChecks.* compute.images.listTagBindings 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.updateSecurity compute.instances.use compute.instances.useReadOnly compute.interconnectAttachments.* compute.interconnectLocations.* compute.interconnects.* compute.machineTypes.* compute.networkEndpointGroups.get compute.networkEndpointGroups.list compute.networkEndpointGroups.use compute.networks.* compute.projects.get compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.delete compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.get compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.list compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.update compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.updatePolicy compute.regionBackendServices.* compute.regionHealthCheckServices.* compute.regionHealthChecks.* compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.get compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.list compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.use compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.* compute.regionOperations.get compute.regionOperations.list compute.regionSslCertificates.get compute.regionSslCertificates.list compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.* compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.* compute.regionUrlMaps.* compute.regions.* compute.routers.* compute.routes.* compute.securityPolicies.get compute.securityPolicies.list compute.securityPolicies.use compute.serviceAttachments.* compute.snapshots.listTagBindings compute.sslCertificates.get compute.sslCertificates.list compute.sslPolicies.* compute.subnetworks.* compute.targetGrpcProxies.* 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.* networkconnectivity.locations.* networkconnectivity.operations.* networksecurity.* networkservices.* resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list servicedirectory.namespaces.create servicedirectory.namespaces.delete servicedirectory.services.create servicedirectory.services.delete servicenetworking.operations.get servicenetworking.services.addPeering servicenetworking.services.get serviceusage.quotas.get serviceusage.services.get serviceusage.services.list trafficdirector.*

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.getEffectiveFirewalls 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.serviceAttachments.get compute.serviceAttachments.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.* networkconnectivity.locations.* networkconnectivity.operations.get networkconnectivity.operations.list networksecurity.authorizationPolicies.get networksecurity.authorizationPolicies.list networksecurity.authorizationPolicies.use networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.get networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.list networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.use networksecurity.locations.* networksecurity.operations.get networksecurity.operations.list networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.get networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.list networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.use networkservices.endpointConfigSelectors.get networkservices.endpointConfigSelectors.list networkservices.endpointConfigSelectors.use networkservices.endpointPolicies.get networkservices.endpointPolicies.list networkservices.endpointPolicies.use networkservices.gateways.get networkservices.gateways.list networkservices.gateways.use networkservices.grpcRoutes.get networkservices.grpcRoutes.list networkservices.grpcRoutes.use networkservices.httpFilters.get networkservices.httpFilters.list networkservices.httpFilters.use networkservices.httpRoutes.get networkservices.httpRoutes.list networkservices.httpRoutes.use networkservices.httpfilters.get networkservices.httpfilters.list networkservices.httpfilters.use networkservices.locations.* networkservices.meshes.get networkservices.meshes.list networkservices.meshes.use networkservices.operations.get networkservices.operations.list networkservices.serviceBindings.get networkservices.serviceBindings.list networkservices.tcpRoutes.get networkservices.tcpRoutes.list networkservices.tcpRoutes.use 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 this role to that software's service account.	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.disks.listTagBindings 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.globalForwardingRules.pscGet compute.healthChecks.get compute.healthChecks.list compute.httpHealthChecks.get compute.httpHealthChecks.list compute.httpsHealthChecks.get compute.httpsHealthChecks.list compute.images.listTagBindings 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.getEffectiveFirewalls compute.networks.list compute.networks.listPeeringRoutes compute.projects.get compute.regionBackendServices.get compute.regionBackendServices.list compute.regionHealthCheckServices.get compute.regionHealthCheckServices.list compute.regionHealthChecks.get compute.regionHealthChecks.list compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.get compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.list compute.regionSslCertificates.get compute.regionSslCertificates.list compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.get compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.list compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.get compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.list compute.regionUrlMaps.get compute.regionUrlMaps.list compute.regions.* compute.routers.get compute.routers.list compute.routes.get compute.routes.list compute.serviceAttachments.get compute.serviceAttachments.list compute.snapshots.listTagBindings compute.sslCertificates.get compute.sslCertificates.list compute.sslPolicies.get compute.sslPolicies.list compute.sslPolicies.listAvailableFeatures compute.subnetworks.get compute.subnetworks.list compute.targetGrpcProxies.get compute.targetGrpcProxies.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.* networkconnectivity.locations.* networkconnectivity.operations.get networkconnectivity.operations.list networksecurity.authorizationPolicies.get networksecurity.authorizationPolicies.list networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.get networksecurity.clientTlsPolicies.list networksecurity.locations.* networksecurity.operations.get networksecurity.operations.list networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.get networksecurity.serverTlsPolicies.list networkservices.endpointConfigSelectors.get networkservices.endpointConfigSelectors.list networkservices.endpointPolicies.get networkservices.endpointPolicies.list networkservices.gateways.get networkservices.gateways.list networkservices.grpcRoutes.get networkservices.grpcRoutes.list networkservices.httpFilters.get networkservices.httpFilters.list networkservices.httpRoutes.get networkservices.httpRoutes.list networkservices.httpfilters.get networkservices.httpfilters.list networkservices.locations.* networkservices.meshes.get networkservices.meshes.list networkservices.operations.get networkservices.operations.list networkservices.serviceBindings.get networkservices.serviceBindings.list networkservices.tcpRoutes.get networkservices.tcpRoutes.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list servicenetworking.services.get serviceusage.quotas.get serviceusage.services.get serviceusage.services.list trafficdirector.*

Compute Organization Firewall Policy Admin role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/compute.orgFirewallPolicyAdmin	Full control of Compute Engine Organization Firewall Policies.	compute.firewallPolicies.cloneRules compute.firewallPolicies.create compute.firewallPolicies.delete compute.firewallPolicies.get compute.firewallPolicies.getIamPolicy compute.firewallPolicies.list compute.firewallPolicies.move compute.firewallPolicies.setIamPolicy compute.firewallPolicies.update compute.firewallPolicies.use compute.globalOperations.get compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy compute.globalOperations.list compute.globalOperations.setIamPolicy compute.projects.get compute.regionOperations.get compute.regionOperations.getIamPolicy compute.regionOperations.list compute.regionOperations.setIamPolicy resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list serviceusage.quotas.get serviceusage.services.get serviceusage.services.list

Compute Organization Firewall Policy User role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/compute.orgFirewallPolicyUser	View or use Compute Engine Firewall Policies to associate with the organization or folders.	compute.firewallPolicies.get compute.firewallPolicies.list compute.firewallPolicies.use compute.globalOperations.get compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy compute.globalOperations.list compute.projects.get compute.regionOperations.get compute.regionOperations.getIamPolicy compute.regionOperations.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list serviceusage.quotas.get serviceusage.services.get serviceusage.services.list

Compute Organization Security Policy Admin role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/compute.orgSecurityPolicyAdmin	Full control of Compute Engine Organization Security Policies.	compute.firewallPolicies.* 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	View or use Compute Engine Security Policies to associate with the organization or folders.	compute.firewallPolicies.addAssociation compute.firewallPolicies.get compute.firewallPolicies.list compute.firewallPolicies.removeAssociation compute.firewallPolicies.use compute.globalOperations.get compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy compute.globalOperations.list compute.globalOperations.setIamPolicy compute.projects.get compute.securityPolicies.addAssociation compute.securityPolicies.get compute.securityPolicies.list compute.securityPolicies.removeAssociation 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	Full control of Compute Engine Firewall Policy associations to the organization or folders.	compute.globalOperations.get compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy compute.globalOperations.list compute.globalOperations.setIamPolicy compute.organizations.listAssociations compute.organizations.setFirewallPolicy compute.organizations.setSecurityPolicy 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.disks.listTagBindings compute.images.listTagBindings compute.instances.get compute.instances.list compute.instances.osAdminLogin compute.instances.osLogin compute.projects.get compute.snapshots.listTagBindings 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.disks.listTagBindings compute.images.listTagBindings compute.instances.get compute.instances.list compute.instances.osLogin compute.projects.get compute.snapshots.listTagBindings 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.instances.updateSecurity 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 Public IP Admin role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/compute.publicIpAdmin	Full control of public IP address management for Compute Engine.	compute.addresses.* compute.globalAddresses.* compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.* compute.publicAdvertisedPrefixes.* compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.* resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.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 VM 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 this role to the security team's group.	compute.firewallPolicies.* compute.firewalls.* compute.globalOperations.get compute.globalOperations.list compute.instances.getEffectiveFirewalls compute.instances.setShieldedInstanceIntegrityPolicy compute.instances.setShieldedVmIntegrityPolicy compute.instances.updateSecurity compute.instances.updateShieldedInstanceConfig compute.instances.updateShieldedVmConfig compute.networks.get compute.networks.getEffectiveFirewalls compute.networks.list compute.networks.updatePolicy compute.packetMirrorings.* compute.projects.get compute.regionOperations.get compute.regionOperations.list compute.regionSslCertificates.* 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 this role to their account 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.getIamPolicy compute.backendServices.list compute.commitments.get compute.commitments.list compute.diskTypes.* compute.disks.get compute.disks.getIamPolicy compute.disks.list compute.disks.listTagBindings compute.externalVpnGateways.get compute.externalVpnGateways.list compute.firewallPolicies.get compute.firewallPolicies.getIamPolicy compute.firewallPolicies.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.globalForwardingRules.pscGet compute.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.get compute.globalNetworkEndpointGroups.list compute.globalOperations.get compute.globalOperations.getIamPolicy compute.globalOperations.list compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.get compute.globalPublicDelegatedPrefixes.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.images.listTagBindings 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.getEffectiveFirewalls 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.machineImages.get compute.machineImages.getIamPolicy compute.machineImages.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.getEffectiveFirewalls 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.organizations.listAssociations compute.projects.get compute.publicAdvertisedPrefixes.get compute.publicAdvertisedPrefixes.list compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.get compute.publicDelegatedPrefixes.list compute.regionBackendServices.get compute.regionBackendServices.getIamPolicy compute.regionBackendServices.list compute.regionHealthCheckServices.get compute.regionHealthCheckServices.list compute.regionHealthChecks.get compute.regionHealthChecks.list compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.get compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.list compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.get compute.regionNotificationEndpoints.list compute.regionOperations.get compute.regionOperations.getIamPolicy compute.regionOperations.list compute.regionSslCertificates.get compute.regionSslCertificates.list compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.get compute.regionTargetHttpProxies.list compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.get compute.regionTargetHttpsProxies.list compute.regionUrlMaps.get compute.regionUrlMaps.list compute.regionUrlMaps.validate 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.serviceAttachments.get compute.serviceAttachments.list compute.snapshots.get compute.snapshots.getIamPolicy compute.snapshots.list compute.snapshots.listTagBindings 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.targetGrpcProxies.get compute.targetGrpcProxies.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. At the organization level, this role can only be granted 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 Network User role (roles/compute.networkUser) 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.administerXpn compute.organizations.disableXpnHost compute.organizations.disableXpnResource compute.organizations.enableXpnHost compute.organizations.enableXpnResource compute.projects.get compute.subnetworks.getIamPolicy compute.subnetworks.setIamPolicy resourcemanager.organizations.get resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.getIamPolicy 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

InstanceOSPoliciesCompliance Viewer role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/osconfig.instanceOSPoliciesComplianceViewer ^Beta	Viewer of OS Policies Compliance of VM instances	osconfig.instanceOSPoliciesCompliances.* resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list

OS Inventory Viewer role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/osconfig.inventoryViewer	Viewer of OS Inventories	osconfig.inventories.* resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list

OSPolicyAssignment Admin role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/osconfig.osPolicyAssignmentAdmin	Full admin access to OS Policy Assignments	osconfig.osPolicyAssignments.* resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list

OSPolicyAssignment Editor role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/osconfig.osPolicyAssignmentEditor	Editor of OS Policy Assignments	osconfig.osPolicyAssignments.get osconfig.osPolicyAssignments.list osconfig.osPolicyAssignments.update resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list

OSPolicyAssignmentReport Viewer role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/osconfig.osPolicyAssignmentReportViewer	Viewer of OS policy assignment reports for VM instances	osconfig.osPolicyAssignmentReports.* resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list

OSPolicyAssignment Viewer role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/osconfig.osPolicyAssignmentViewer	Viewer of OS Policy Assignments	osconfig.osPolicyAssignments.get osconfig.osPolicyAssignments.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list

PatchDeployment Admin role

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

PatchDeployment Viewer role

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

Patch Job Viewer role

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

OS VulnerabilityReport Viewer role

Name	Description	Permissions
roles/osconfig.vulnerabilityReportViewer	Viewer of OS VulnerabilityReports	osconfig.vulnerabilityReports.* 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.* dns.responsePolicies.* dns.responsePolicyRules.* 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.get dns.resourceRecordSets.list dns.responsePolicies.get dns.responsePolicies.list dns.responsePolicyRules.get dns.responsePolicyRules.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.disable iam.serviceAccounts.enable iam.serviceAccounts.get iam.serviceAccounts.getIamPolicy iam.serviceAccounts.list iam.serviceAccounts.setIamPolicy iam.serviceAccounts.undelete 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

What's next

• Learn more about IAM.
• Learn how to create and manage custom IAM roles.
• Grant IAM roles to project users.
• Grant IAM roles for specific Compute Engine resources.
• Grant IAM roles to service accounts.