Control access using IAM

Cloud Tasks uses Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access control.

Access control can be configured at the project level and at the queue level. For example: You can grant access with limited capabilities, like to create and add tasks to a queue, but not to delete the queue. Or you can grant access to all Cloud Tasks resources within a project to a group of developers.

For a detailed description of IAM and its features, see the IAM documentation. In particular, see its Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations section.

Every Cloud Tasks method requires the caller to have the necessary permissions. See below for a list of the permissions and roles supported. The Cloud Tasks IAM permissions are also checked when queue.yaml/xml is updated or when the Google Cloud console is used.

Note: To access and manage tasks via the Google Cloud console, an account must also have the appengine.applications.get permission. All of the App Engine pre-defined roles grant this permission.

Roles

The following table lists the Cloud Tasks IAM roles with a corresponding list of all the permissions each role includes. Note that every permission is applicable to a particular resource type.

Role	Permissions
Cloud Tasks Admin ^Beta (roles/cloudtasks.admin) Full access to queues and tasks. Contains 2 owner permissions	cloudtasks.* cloudtasks.locations.get cloudtasks.locations.list cloudtasks.queues.create cloudtasks.queues.delete cloudtasks.queues.get cloudtasks.queues.getIamPolicy cloudtasks.queues.list cloudtasks.queues.pause cloudtasks.queues.purge cloudtasks.queues.resume cloudtasks.queues.setIamPolicy cloudtasks.queues.update cloudtasks.tasks.create cloudtasks.tasks.delete cloudtasks.tasks.fullView cloudtasks.tasks.get cloudtasks.tasks.list cloudtasks.tasks.run monitoring.timeSeries.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list
Cloud Tasks Enqueuer ^Beta (roles/cloudtasks.enqueuer) Access to create tasks.	cloudtasks.tasks.create cloudtasks.tasks.fullView resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list
Cloud Tasks Queue Admin ^Beta (roles/cloudtasks.queueAdmin) Admin access to queues. Contains 2 owner permissions	cloudtasks.locations.* cloudtasks.locations.get cloudtasks.locations.list cloudtasks.queues.* cloudtasks.queues.create cloudtasks.queues.delete cloudtasks.queues.get cloudtasks.queues.getIamPolicy cloudtasks.queues.list cloudtasks.queues.pause cloudtasks.queues.purge cloudtasks.queues.resume cloudtasks.queues.setIamPolicy cloudtasks.queues.update resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list
Cloud Tasks Task Deleter ^Beta (roles/cloudtasks.taskDeleter) Access to delete tasks.	cloudtasks.tasks.delete resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list
Cloud Tasks Task Runner ^Beta (roles/cloudtasks.taskRunner) Access to run tasks.	cloudtasks.tasks.fullView cloudtasks.tasks.run resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list
Cloud Tasks Viewer ^Beta (roles/cloudtasks.viewer) Get and list access to tasks, queues, and locations.	cloudtasks.locations.* cloudtasks.locations.get cloudtasks.locations.list cloudtasks.queues.get cloudtasks.queues.list cloudtasks.tasks.fullView cloudtasks.tasks.get cloudtasks.tasks.list monitoring.timeSeries.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list