APIs and reference

General API reference documentation

• Authenticate to IAM

  Authenticate to IAM programmatically so that you can access the IAM API.

• Retry failed requests

  Find out how to retry failed requests to the IAM API.

• Client libraries

  Use a client library to integrate your application with IAM.

• gcloud iam commands

  Use the gcloud iam commands to work with IAM from the command line.

REST API reference documentation

• IAM REST API

  Manage roles and permissions, and manage your service accounts and keys, with the REST API.

• Privileged Access Manager REST API

  Manage just-in-time temporary role grants with the REST API.

• Security Token Service REST API

  Exchange access tokens.

• Service Account Credentials REST API

  Create short-lived, limited-privilege credentials for service accounts.

RPC API reference documentation

• IAM RPC API

  Manage roles and permissions, and manage your service accounts and keys, with the RPC API.

• Privileged Access Manager RPC API

  Manage just-in-time temporary role grants with the RPC API.

IAM Conditions reference documentation

• Conditions attribute reference

  Learn about attributes that you can use to conditionally grant or deny access.

• Conditions resource attribute value reference

  Grant access to specific Google Cloud services, resource types, and resource names.

• Services that allow conditional role bindings

  Find out which resource types let you add conditional role bindings to their allow policies.

Conditions reference documentation

• Conditions attribute reference

  Learn about attributes that you can use to conditionally grant or deny access.

• Conditions resource attribute value reference

  Grant access to specific Google Cloud services, resource types, and resource names.

• Services that allow conditional role bindings

  Find out which resource types let you add conditional role bindings to their allow policies.

Roles and permissions reference documentation

• Roles and permissions index

  Filter and browse the available IAM roles and permissions for all Google Cloud services.

Other reference documentation

• Basic and predefined roles reference

  View IAM basic roles, as well as a complete list of IAM predefined roles and the permissions they contain.

• Full resource names

  Understand the format that IAM uses to identify another service's resources.

• Identity federation: supported products and limitations

  Lists Google Cloud products that work with workforce identity federation, and provides associated product limitations.

• Permissions reference

  View a complete list of IAM permissions and the roles that grant them.

• Permissions supported in deny policies

  Learn which IAM permissions you can use in deny policies.

• Permissions that principal access boundary policies can block

  Learn which IAM permissions each version of principal access boundary policies can block.

• Principal identifiers

  Understand the identifiers that you use when listing principals in allow policies and deny policies.

• Resource types that accept allow policies

  Learn which resource types accept allow policies.

• Resource types with built-in identities

  Learn which resource have built-in identities and what the principal identifiers for those built-in identities are.

• Service agents

  Get details about the service accounts that Google Cloud services use to access your resources.

• Support levels for permissions in custom roles

  Learn which IAM permissions you can use in custom roles.