IAM Service Account Credentials API

Creates short-lived credentials for impersonating IAM service accounts. Disabling this API also disables the IAM API (iam.googleapis.com). However, enabling this API doesn't enable the IAM API.

Service: iamcredentials.googleapis.com

To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.

Discovery document

A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:

Service endpoint

A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:

  • https://iamcredentials.googleapis.com

REST Resource: v1.locations.workforcePools

Methods
getAllowedLocations GET /v1/{name=locations/*/workforcePools/*}/allowedLocations
Returns the trust boundary info for a given workforce pool.

REST Resource: v1.projects.locations.workloadIdentityPools

Methods
getAllowedLocations GET /v1/{name=projects/*/locations/*/workloadIdentityPools/*}/allowedLocations
Returns the trust boundary info for a given workload identity pool.

REST Resource: v1.projects.serviceAccounts

Methods
generateAccessToken POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:generateAccessToken
Generates an OAuth 2.0 access token for a service account.
generateIdToken POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:generateIdToken
Generates an OpenID Connect ID token for a service account.
getAllowedLocations GET /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}/allowedLocations
Returns the trust boundary info for a given service account.
signBlob POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:signBlob
Signs a blob using a service account's system-managed private key.
signJwt POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:signJwt
Signs a JWT using a service account's system-managed private key.