Create and delete service account keys

This page explains how to create and delete service account keys using the Google Cloud console, the Google Cloud CLI, the Identity and Access Management API, or one of the Google Cloud Client Libraries.

Before you begin

  • Enable the IAM API.

    Enable the API

  • Set up authentication.

    Select the tab for how you plan to use the samples on this page:

    Console

    When you use the Google Cloud console to access Google Cloud services and APIs, you don't need to set up authentication.

    gcloud

    You can use the gcloud CLI samples on this page from either of the following development environments:

    • Cloud Shell: To use an online terminal with the gcloud CLI already set up, activate Cloud Shell.

      At the bottom of this page, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

    • Local shell: To use the gcloud CLI in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI.

    C++

    To use the C++ samples on this page from a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

    1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
    2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

      gcloud init
    3. Create local authentication credentials for your Google Account:

      gcloud auth application-default login

    For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

    C#

    To use the .NET samples on this page from a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

    1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
    2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

      gcloud init
    3. Create local authentication credentials for your Google Account:

      gcloud auth application-default login

    For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

    Go

    To use the Go samples on this page from a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

    1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
    2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

      gcloud init
    3. Create local authentication credentials for your Google Account:

      gcloud auth application-default login

    For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

    Java

    To use the Java samples on this page from a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

    1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
    2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

      gcloud init
    3. Create local authentication credentials for your Google Account:

      gcloud auth application-default login

    For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

    Python

    To use the Python samples on this page from a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

    1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
    2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

      gcloud init
    3. Create local authentication credentials for your Google Account:

      gcloud auth application-default login

    For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

    REST

    To use the REST API samples on this page in a local development environment, you use the credentials you provide to the gcloud CLI.

      Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

      gcloud init

  • Understand service account credentials.

Required roles

To get the permissions that you need to create and delete service account keys, ask your administrator to grant you the Service Account Key Admin (roles/iam.serviceAccountKeyAdmin) IAM role on the project, or the service account whose keys you want to manage. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access.

You might also be able to get the required permissions through custom roles or other predefined roles.

For more information, see Service Accounts roles.

IAM basic roles also contain permissions to manage service account keys. You should not grant basic roles in a production environment, but you can grant them in a development or test environment.

Create a service account key

To use a service account from outside of Google Cloud, such as on other platforms or on-premises, you must first establish the identity of the service account. Public/private key pairs provide a secure way of accomplishing this goal. When you create a service account key, the public portion is stored on Google Cloud, while the private portion is available only to you. For more information about public/private key pairs, see Service account keys.

You can create a service account key using the Google Cloud console, the gcloud CLI, the serviceAccounts.keys.create() method, or one of the client libraries. A service account can have up to 10 keys.

By default, service account keys never expire. You can use an organization policy constraint to specify the length of time for which a service account key is valid. For details, see Expiry times for user-managed keys.

In the examples below, SA_NAME is the name of your service account, and PROJECT_ID is the ID of your Google Cloud project. You can retrieve the SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com string from the Service Accounts page in the Google Cloud console.

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Service accounts page.

    Go to Service accounts

    The remaining steps will appear automatically in the Google Cloud console.

  2. Select a project.
  3. Click the email address of the service account that you want to create a key for.
  4. Click the Keys tab.
  5. Click the Add key drop-down menu, then select Create new key.
  6. Select JSON as the Key type and click Create.

Clicking Create downloads a service account key file. After you download the key file, you cannot download it again.

The downloaded key has the following format, where PRIVATE_KEY is the private portion of the public/private key pair:

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "PROJECT_ID",
  "private_key_id": "KEY_ID",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nPRIVATE_KEY\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL",
  "client_id": "CLIENT_ID",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL"
}

Make sure to store the key file securely, because it can be used to authenticate as your service account. You can move and rename this file however you would like.

You can use service account key files to authenticate an application as a service account.

gcloud

Execute the gcloud iam service-accounts keys create command to create service account keys.

Replace the following values:

  • KEY_FILE: The path to a new output file for the private key—for example, ~/sa-private-key.json.
  • SA_NAME: The name of the service account to create a key for.
  • PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud project ID.
gcloud iam service-accounts keys create KEY_FILE \
    --iam-account=SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com

Output:

created key [e44da1202f82f8f4bdd9d92bc412d1d8a837fa83] of type [json] as
[/usr/home/username/KEY_FILE] for
[SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com]

The service account key file is now downloaded to your machine. After you download the key file, you cannot download it again.

The downloaded key has the following format, where PRIVATE_KEY is the private portion of the public/private key pair:

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "PROJECT_ID",
  "private_key_id": "KEY_ID",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nPRIVATE_KEY\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL",
  "client_id": "CLIENT_ID",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL"
}

Make sure to store the key file securely, because it can be used to authenticate as your service account. You can move and rename this file however you would like.

You can use service account key files to authenticate an application as a service account.

C++

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

namespace iam = ::google::cloud::iam_admin_v1;
return [](std::string const& name) {
  iam::IAMClient client(iam::MakeIAMConnection());
  auto response = client.CreateServiceAccountKey(
      name,
      google::iam::admin::v1::ServiceAccountPrivateKeyType::
          TYPE_GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS_FILE,
      google::iam::admin::v1::ServiceAccountKeyAlgorithm::KEY_ALG_RSA_2048);
  if (!response) throw std::move(response).status();
  std::cout << "ServiceAccountKey successfully created: "
            << response->DebugString() << "\n"
            << "Please save the key in a secure location, as they cannot "
               "be downloaded later\n";
  return response->name();
}

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.


using System;
using System.Text;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1.Data;

public partial class ServiceAccountKeys
{
    public static ServiceAccountKey CreateKey(string serviceAccountEmail)
    {
        var credential = GoogleCredential.GetApplicationDefault()
            .CreateScoped(IamService.Scope.CloudPlatform);
        var service = new IamService(new IamService.Initializer
        {
            HttpClientInitializer = credential
        });

        var key = service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Keys.Create(
            new CreateServiceAccountKeyRequest(),
            "projects/-/serviceAccounts/" + serviceAccountEmail)
            .Execute();

        // The PrivateKeyData field contains the base64-encoded service account key
        // in JSON format.
        // TODO(Developer): Save the below key (jsonKeyFile) to a secure location.
        //  You cannot download it later.
        byte[] valueBytes = System.Convert.FromBase64String(key.PrivateKeyData);
        string jsonKeyContent = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(valueBytes);

        Console.WriteLine("Key created successfully");
        return key;
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

import (
	"context"
	// "encoding/base64"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	iam "google.golang.org/api/iam/v1"
)

// createKey creates a service account key.
func createKey(w io.Writer, serviceAccountEmail string) (*iam.ServiceAccountKey, error) {
	ctx := context.Background()
	service, err := iam.NewService(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("iam.NewService: %w", err)
	}

	resource := "projects/-/serviceAccounts/" + serviceAccountEmail
	request := &iam.CreateServiceAccountKeyRequest{}
	key, err := service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Keys.Create(resource, request).Do()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Projects.ServiceAccounts.Keys.Create: %w", err)
	}
	// The PrivateKeyData field contains the base64-encoded service account key
	// in JSON format.
	// TODO(Developer): Save the below key (jsonKeyFile) to a secure location.
	// You cannot download it later.
	// jsonKeyFile, _ := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(key.PrivateKeyData)
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Key created successfully")
	return key, nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

import com.google.api.client.googleapis.javanet.GoogleNetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.iam.v1.Iam;
import com.google.api.services.iam.v1.IamScopes;
import com.google.api.services.iam.v1.model.CreateServiceAccountKeyRequest;
import com.google.api.services.iam.v1.model.ServiceAccountKey;
import com.google.auth.http.HttpCredentialsAdapter;
import com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.Collections;

public class CreateServiceAccountKey {

  // Creates a key for a service account.
  public static String createKey(String projectId, String serviceAccountName) {
    // String projectId = "my-project-id";
    // String serviceAccountName = "my-service-account-name";

    Iam service = null;
    try {
      service = initService();
    } catch (IOException | GeneralSecurityException e) {
      System.out.println("Unable to initialize service: \n" + e);
      return null;
    }

    // Construct the service account email.
    // You can modify the ".iam.gserviceaccount.com" to match the service account name in which
    // you want to create the key.
    // See, https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys?hl=en#creating
    String serviceAccountEmail = serviceAccountName + "@" + projectId + ".iam.gserviceaccount.com";
    try {
      ServiceAccountKey key =
          service
              .projects()
              .serviceAccounts()
              .keys()
              .create(
                  "projects/-/serviceAccounts/" + serviceAccountEmail,
                  new CreateServiceAccountKeyRequest())
              .execute();

      // The privateKeyData field contains the base64-encoded service account key
      // in JSON format.
      // TODO(Developer): Save the below key (jsonKeyFile) to a secure location.
      //  You cannot download it later.
      String jsonKeyFile = new String(Base64.getDecoder().decode(key.getPrivateKeyData()));

      System.out.println("Key created successfully");
      String keyName = key.getName();
      return keyName.substring(keyName.lastIndexOf("/") + 1).trim();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("Unable to create service account key: \n" + e);
      return null;
    }
  }

  private static Iam initService() throws GeneralSecurityException, IOException {
    // Use the Application Default Credentials strategy for authentication. For more info, see:
    // https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production#finding_credentials_automatically
    GoogleCredentials credential =
        GoogleCredentials.getApplicationDefault()
            .createScoped(Collections.singleton(IamScopes.CLOUD_PLATFORM));
    // Initialize the IAM service, which can be used to send requests to the IAM API.
    Iam service =
        new Iam.Builder(
            GoogleNetHttpTransport.newTrustedTransport(),
            GsonFactory.getDefaultInstance(),
            new HttpCredentialsAdapter(credential))
            .setApplicationName("service-account-keys")
            .build();
    return service;
  }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

import os

from google.oauth2 import service_account
import googleapiclient.discovery  # type: ignore

def create_key(service_account_email: str) -> None:
    """Creates a key for a service account."""

    credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
        filename=os.environ["GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS"],
        scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"],
    )

    service = googleapiclient.discovery.build("iam", "v1", credentials=credentials)

    key = (
        service.projects()
        .serviceAccounts()
        .keys()
        .create(name="projects/-/serviceAccounts/" + service_account_email, body={})
        .execute()
    )

    # The privateKeyData field contains the base64-encoded service account key
    # in JSON format.
    # TODO(Developer): Save the below key {json_key_file} to a secure location.
    #  You cannot download it again later.
    # import base64
    # json_key_file = base64.b64decode(key['privateKeyData']).decode('utf-8')

    if not key["disabled"]:
        print("Created json key")

REST

The projects.serviceAccounts.keys.create method creates a key for a service account.

Before using any of the request data, make the following replacements:

  • PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud project ID. Project IDs are alphanumeric strings, like my-project.
  • SA_NAME: The name of the service account that you want to create a key for.
  • KEY_ALGORITHM: Optional. The key algorithm to use for the key. The default, which is subject to change, is a 2,048-bit RSA key. For a list of all possible values, see the ServiceAccountKeyAlgorithm reference.

HTTP method and URL:

POST https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts/SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com/keys

Request JSON body:

{
  "keyAlgorithm": "KEY_ALGORITHM"
}

To send your request, expand one of these options:

The response contains a key for your service account. The returned key has the following format, where ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY is the private portion of the public/private key pair, encoded in base64.

{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts/SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL/keys/KEY_ID",
  "privateKeyType": "TYPE_GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS_FILE",
  "privateKeyData": "ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY",
  "validAfterTime": "DATE",
  "validBeforeTime": "DATE",
  "keyAlgorithm": "KEY_ALG_RSA_2048"
}

To create a key file that you can use to authenticate as the service account, decode the private key data and save it in a file:

Linux

Run the following command:

echo 'ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY' | base64 --decode > PATH

Replace PATH with the path of the file that you want to save the key to. Use the .json file extension.

macOS

Run the following command:

echo 'ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY' | base64 --decode > PATH

Replace PATH with the path of the file that you want to save the key to. Use the .json file extension.

PowerShell

  1. Save the encoded private key data (ENCODED_PRIVATE_KEY) in a file.

  2. Use certutil to decode the file:

    certutil -decode ENCODED_FILE DECODED_FILE
    

    Replace the following values:

    • ENCODED_FILE: the path to the file containing the encoded private key data.
    • DECODED_FILE: the path of the file that you want to save the key to. Use the .json file extension.

Make sure to store the key data securely, because it can be used to authenticate as your service account.

You can use service account key files to authenticate an application as a service account.

Delete a service account key

Deleting a service account key permanently prevents you from using the key to authenticate with Google APIs.

You cannot undelete a deleted key. Before you delete a key, we recommend that you disable the key, then wait until you are sure that the key is no longer needed. You can then delete the key.

As a best practice, rotate your service account keys regularly. To learn more about rotating service account keys, see Service account key rotation.

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Service accounts page.

    Go to Service accounts

    The remaining steps will appear automatically in the Google Cloud console.

  2. Select a project.
  3. On the Service accounts page, click the email address of the service account whose key you want to delete.
  4. Click the Keys tab.
  5. From the list of keys, click Delete for each key you'd like to delete.

gcloud

Execute the gcloud iam service-accounts keys delete command to delete service account keys.

Replace the following values:

  • KEY_ID: The ID of the key to delete. To find the key's ID, list all keys for the service account, identify the key that you want to delete, and then copy its ID.
  • SA_NAME: The name of the service account that the key belongs to.
  • PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud project ID.
gcloud iam service-accounts keys delete KEY_ID \
    --iam-account=SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com

Output:

Deleted key [KEY_ID] for service account
[SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com]

C++

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

namespace iam = ::google::cloud::iam_admin_v1;
[](std::string const& name) {
  iam::IAMClient client(iam::MakeIAMConnection());
  auto response = client.DeleteServiceAccountKey(name);
  if (!response.ok()) throw std::runtime_error(response.message());
  std::cout << "ServiceAccountKey successfully deleted.\n";
}

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.


using System;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1.Data;

public partial class ServiceAccountKeys
{
    public static void DeleteKey(string fullKeyName)
    {
        var credential = GoogleCredential.GetApplicationDefault()
            .CreateScoped(IamService.Scope.CloudPlatform);
        var service = new IamService(new IamService.Initializer
        {
            HttpClientInitializer = credential
        });

        service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Keys.Delete(fullKeyName).Execute();
        Console.WriteLine("Deleted key: " + fullKeyName);
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	iam "google.golang.org/api/iam/v1"
)

// deleteKey deletes a service account key.
func deleteKey(w io.Writer, fullKeyName string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()
	service, err := iam.NewService(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("iam.NewService: %w", err)
	}

	_, err = service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Keys.Delete(fullKeyName).Do()
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Projects.ServiceAccounts.Keys.Delete: %w", err)
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Deleted key: %v", fullKeyName)
	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.


import com.google.api.client.googleapis.javanet.GoogleNetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.iam.v1.Iam;
import com.google.api.services.iam.v1.IamScopes;
import com.google.auth.http.HttpCredentialsAdapter;
import com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.Collections;

public class DeleteServiceAccountKey {

  // Deletes a service account key.
  public static void deleteKey(String projectId, String serviceAccountName,
      String serviceAccountKey) {
    // String projectId = "my-project-id";
    // String serviceAccountName = "my-service-account-name";
    // String serviceAccountKey = "key-name";

    Iam service = null;
    try {
      service = initService();
    } catch (IOException | GeneralSecurityException e) {
      System.out.println("Unable to initialize service: \n" + e);
      return;
    }

    // Construct the service account email.
    // You can modify the ".iam.gserviceaccount.com" to match the service account name in which
    // you want to delete the key.
    // See, https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys?hl=en#deleting
    String serviceAccountEmail = serviceAccountName + "@" + projectId + ".iam.gserviceaccount.com";
    try {
      String keyToDelete = String.format("projects/-/serviceAccounts/%s/keys/%s",
          serviceAccountEmail, serviceAccountKey);

      // Then you can delete the key
      service.projects().serviceAccounts().keys().delete(keyToDelete).execute();

      System.out.println("Deleted key: " + keyToDelete);
    } catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("Unable to delete service account key: \n" + e);
    }
  }

  private static Iam initService() throws GeneralSecurityException, IOException {
    // Use the Application Default Credentials strategy for authentication. For more info, see:
    // https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production#finding_credentials_automatically
    GoogleCredentials credential =
        GoogleCredentials.getApplicationDefault()
            .createScoped(Collections.singleton(IamScopes.CLOUD_PLATFORM));
    // Initialize the IAM service, which can be used to send requests to the IAM API.
    Iam service =
        new Iam.Builder(
                GoogleNetHttpTransport.newTrustedTransport(),
                GsonFactory.getDefaultInstance(),
                new HttpCredentialsAdapter(credential))
            .setApplicationName("service-account-keys")
            .build();
    return service;
  }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

import os

from google.oauth2 import service_account
import googleapiclient.discovery  # type: ignore

def delete_key(full_key_name: str) -> None:
    """Deletes a service account key."""

    credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
        filename=os.environ["GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS"],
        scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"],
    )

    service = googleapiclient.discovery.build("iam", "v1", credentials=credentials)

    service.projects().serviceAccounts().keys().delete(name=full_key_name).execute()

    print("Deleted key: " + full_key_name)

REST

The projects.serviceAccounts.keys.delete method deletes a service account key.

Before using any of the request data, make the following replacements:

  • PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud project ID. Project IDs are alphanumeric strings, like my-project.
  • SA_NAME: The name of the service account whose key you want to delete.
  • KEY_ID: The ID of the key that you want to delete. To find the key's ID, list all keys for the service account, identify the key that you want to delete, and then copy its ID from the end of the name field. The key's ID is everything after keys/.

HTTP method and URL:

DELETE https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts/SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com/keys/KEY_ID

To send your request, expand one of these options:

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

{
}

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