Add an IAM member

Add a member to the bucket IAM policy.

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Code sample

C++

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

namespace gcs = ::google::cloud::storage;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](gcs::Client client, std::string const& bucket_name,
   std::string const& role, std::string const& member) {
  auto policy = client.GetNativeBucketIamPolicy(
      bucket_name, gcs::RequestedPolicyVersion(3));

  if (!policy) throw std::move(policy).status();

  policy->set_version(3);
  for (auto& binding : policy->bindings()) {
    if (binding.role() != role || binding.has_condition()) {
      continue;
    }
    auto& members = binding.members();
    if (std::find(members.begin(), members.end(), member) == members.end()) {
      members.emplace_back(member);
    }
  }

  auto updated = client.SetNativeBucketIamPolicy(bucket_name, *policy);
  if (!updated) throw std::move(updated).status();

  std::cout << "Updated IAM policy bucket " << bucket_name
            << ". The new policy is " << *updated << "\n";
}

C#

For more information, see the Cloud Storage C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.


using Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data;
using Google.Cloud.Storage.V1;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class AddBucketIamMemberSample
{
    public Policy AddBucketIamMember(
        string bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name",
        string role = "roles/storage.objectViewer",
        string member = "serviceAccount:dev@iam.gserviceaccount.com")
    {
        var storage = StorageClient.Create();
        var policy = storage.GetBucketIamPolicy(bucketName, new GetBucketIamPolicyOptions
        {
            RequestedPolicyVersion = 3
        });
        // Set the policy schema version. For more information, please refer to https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/policies#versions.
        policy.Version = 3;

        Policy.BindingsData bindingToAdd = new Policy.BindingsData
        {
            Role = role,
            Members = new List<string> { member }
        };

        policy.Bindings.Add(bindingToAdd);
        var bucketIamPolicy = storage.SetBucketIamPolicy(bucketName, policy);
        Console.WriteLine($"Added {member} with role {role} " + $"to {bucketName}");
        return bucketIamPolicy;
    }
}

Go

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	"cloud.google.com/go/iam"
	"cloud.google.com/go/storage"
)

// addBucketIAMMember adds the bucket IAM member to permission role.
func addBucketIAMMember(w io.Writer, bucketName string) error {
	// bucketName := "bucket-name"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := storage.NewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("storage.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, time.Second*10)
	defer cancel()

	bucket := client.Bucket(bucketName)
	policy, err := bucket.IAM().Policy(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).IAM().Policy: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	// Other valid prefixes are "serviceAccount:", "user:"
	// See the documentation for more values.
	// https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam
	identity := "group:cloud-logs@google.com"
	var role iam.RoleName = "roles/storage.objectViewer"

	policy.Add(identity, role)
	if err := bucket.IAM().SetPolicy(ctx, policy); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Bucket(%q).IAM().SetPolicy: %w", bucketName, err)
	}
	// NOTE: It may be necessary to retry this operation if IAM policies are
	// being modified concurrently. SetPolicy will return an error if the policy
	// was modified since it was retrieved.
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Added %v with role %v to %v\n", identity, role, bucketName)
	return nil
}

Java

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.


import com.google.cloud.Binding;
import com.google.cloud.Policy;
import com.google.cloud.storage.Storage;
import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class AddBucketIamMember {
  /** Example of adding a member to the Bucket-level IAM */
  public static void addBucketIamMember(String projectId, String bucketName) {
    // The ID of your GCP project
    // String projectId = "your-project-id";

    // The ID of your GCS bucket
    // String bucketName = "your-unique-bucket-name";

    // For more information please read:
    // https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam
    Storage storage = StorageOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId(projectId).build().getService();

    Policy originalPolicy =
        storage.getIamPolicy(bucketName, Storage.BucketSourceOption.requestedPolicyVersion(3));

    String role = "roles/storage.objectViewer";
    String member = "group:example@google.com";

    // getBindingsList() returns an ImmutableList and copying over to an ArrayList so it's mutable.
    List<Binding> bindings = new ArrayList(originalPolicy.getBindingsList());

    // Create a new binding using role and member
    Binding.Builder newMemberBindingBuilder = Binding.newBuilder();
    newMemberBindingBuilder.setRole(role).setMembers(Arrays.asList(member));
    bindings.add(newMemberBindingBuilder.build());

    // Update policy to add member
    Policy.Builder updatedPolicyBuilder = originalPolicy.toBuilder();
    updatedPolicyBuilder.setBindings(bindings).setVersion(3);
    Policy updatedPolicy = storage.setIamPolicy(bucketName, updatedPolicyBuilder.build());

    System.out.printf("Added %s with role %s to %s\n", member, role, bucketName);
  }
}

Node.js

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of your GCS bucket
// const bucketName = 'your-unique-bucket-name';

// The role to grant
// const roleName = 'roles/storage.objectViewer';

// The members to grant the new role to
// const members = [
//   'user:jdoe@example.com',
//   'group:admins@example.com',
// ];

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');

// Creates a client
const storage = new Storage();

async function addBucketIamMember() {
  // Get a reference to a Google Cloud Storage bucket
  const bucket = storage.bucket(bucketName);

  // For more information please read:
  // https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam
  const [policy] = await bucket.iam.getPolicy({requestedPolicyVersion: 3});

  // Adds the new roles to the bucket's IAM policy
  policy.bindings.push({
    role: roleName,
    members: members,
  });

  // Updates the bucket's IAM policy
  await bucket.iam.setPolicy(policy);

  console.log(
    `Added the following member(s) with role ${roleName} to ${bucketName}:`
  );

  members.forEach(member => {
    console.log(`  ${member}`);
  });
}

addBucketIamMember().catch(console.error);

PHP

For more information, see the Cloud Storage PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

use Google\Cloud\Storage\StorageClient;

/**
 * Adds a new member / role IAM pair to a given Cloud Storage bucket.
 *
 * @param string $bucketName The name of your Cloud Storage bucket.
 *        (e.g. 'my-bucket')
 * @param string $role The role to which the given member should be added.
 *        (e.g. 'roles/storage.objectViewer')
 * @param string[] $members The member(s) to be added to the role.
 *        (e.g. ['group:example@google.com'])
 */
function add_bucket_iam_member(string $bucketName, string $role, array $members): void
{
    $storage = new StorageClient();
    $bucket = $storage->bucket($bucketName);

    $policy = $bucket->iam()->policy(['requestedPolicyVersion' => 3]);
    $policy['version'] = 3;

    $policy['bindings'][] = [
        'role' => $role,
        'members' => $members
    ];

    $bucket->iam()->setPolicy($policy);

    printf('Added the following member(s) to role %s for bucket %s' . PHP_EOL, $role, $bucketName);
    foreach ($members as $member) {
        printf('    %s' . PHP_EOL, $member);
    }
}

Python

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

from google.cloud import storage


def add_bucket_iam_member(bucket_name, role, member):
    """Add a new member to an IAM Policy"""
    # bucket_name = "your-bucket-name"
    # role = "IAM role, e.g., roles/storage.objectViewer"
    # member = "IAM identity, e.g., user: name@example.com"

    storage_client = storage.Client()
    bucket = storage_client.bucket(bucket_name)

    policy = bucket.get_iam_policy(requested_policy_version=3)

    policy.bindings.append({"role": role, "members": {member}})

    bucket.set_iam_policy(policy)

    print(f"Added {member} with role {role} to {bucket_name}.")

Ruby

For more information, see the Cloud Storage Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Storage, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

def add_bucket_iam_member bucket_name:
  # The ID of your GCS bucket
  # bucket_name = "your-unique-bucket-name"

  require "google/cloud/storage"

  storage = Google::Cloud::Storage.new
  bucket = storage.bucket bucket_name

  role   = "roles/storage.objectViewer"
  member = "group:example@google.com"

  bucket.policy requested_policy_version: 3 do |policy|
    policy.bindings.insert role: role, members: [member]
  end

  puts "Added #{member} with role #{role} to #{bucket_name}"
end

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