Access control with IAM

Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you give access to specific resources. To give access to a resource, you grant a specific role to a user, which gives the user certain permissions.

Required roles

Every Workload Manager API method requires the necessary IAM permissions. Permissions are assigned by granting roles to a user, group, or service account. For information about how to grant access to resources, see Manage access.

The following table shows the Workload Manager IAM roles and the permissions granted by those roles.

Workload Manager roles	Permissions
Workload Manager Admin ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.admin) Full access to Workload Manager all resources.	compute.acceleratorTypes.list compute.diskTypes.list compute.machineTypes.list compute.networks.list compute.projects.get compute.regions.list compute.subnetworks.list compute.zones.list dns.managedZones.list iam.serviceAccounts.list monitoring.timeSeries.list orgpolicy.policy.get resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.getIamPolicy resourcemanager.projects.list serviceusage.quotas.get serviceusage.services.get storage.buckets.list storage.objects.list workloadmanager.*
Workload Manager Deployment Admin ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.deploymentAdmin) Full access to Workload Manager deployment resources.	compute.acceleratorTypes.list compute.diskTypes.list compute.machineTypes.list compute.networks.list compute.projects.get compute.regions.list compute.subnetworks.list compute.zones.list dns.managedZones.list iam.serviceAccounts.list monitoring.timeSeries.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.getIamPolicy resourcemanager.projects.list serviceusage.quotas.get serviceusage.services.get storage.buckets.list storage.objects.list workloadmanager.actuations.* workloadmanager.deployments.* workloadmanager.locations.* workloadmanager.operations.*
Workload Manager Deployment Viewer ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.deploymentViewer) Read-only access to Workload Manager deployment resources.	resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list workloadmanager.actuations.get workloadmanager.actuations.list workloadmanager.deployments.get workloadmanager.deployments.list
Workload Manager Evaluation Admin ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.evaluationAdmin) Full access to Workload Manager evaluation resources.	orgpolicy.policy.get resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list workloadmanager.evaluations.* workloadmanager.executions.* workloadmanager.locations.* workloadmanager.operations.* workloadmanager.results.list workloadmanager.rules.list
Workload Manager Evaluation Viewer ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.evaluationViewer) Read-only access to Workload Manager evaluation resources.	orgpolicy.policy.get resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list workloadmanager.evaluations.get workloadmanager.evaluations.list workloadmanager.executions.get workloadmanager.executions.list workloadmanager.results.list workloadmanager.rules.list
Workload Manager Evaluation Worker ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.evaluationWorker) The role used by Workload Manager application runners to read and update workloads.	workloadmanager.evaluations.* workloadmanager.executions.*
Workload Manager Insights Writer ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.insightWriter) The role used to write data to WLM data warehouse.	workloadmanager.insights.write
Workload Manager Viewer ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.viewer) Read-only access to Workload Manager all resources.	orgpolicy.policy.get resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list workloadmanager.actuations.get workloadmanager.actuations.list workloadmanager.deployments.get workloadmanager.deployments.list workloadmanager.evaluations.get workloadmanager.evaluations.list workloadmanager.executions.get workloadmanager.executions.list workloadmanager.results.list workloadmanager.rules.list
Workload Manager Worker ^Beta (roles/workloadmanager.worker) The role used by Workload Manager application runners to read and update workloads.	orgpolicy.policy.get resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list workloadmanager.actuations.* workloadmanager.deployments.* workloadmanager.evaluations.* workloadmanager.executions.* workloadmanager.insights.write workloadmanager.results.list workloadmanager.rules.list
Workload Manager Service Agent (roles/workloadmanager.serviceAgent) Gives Workload Manager Service Agent access to CAI export functions and Cloud Monitoring. Warning: Do not grant service agent roles to any principals except service agents.	cloudasset.assets.exportAccessPolicy cloudasset.assets.exportIamPolicy cloudasset.assets.exportOSInventories cloudasset.assets.exportOrgPolicy cloudasset.assets.exportResource cloudasset.assets.searchAllResources config.deployments.create config.deployments.delete config.deployments.get config.deployments.list config.deployments.update config.locations.* config.locations.get config.locations.list config.operations.* config.operations.cancel config.operations.delete config.operations.get config.operations.list config.resources.list config.revisions.get config.revisions.list monitoring.metricDescriptors.get monitoring.metricDescriptors.list monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.* monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.get monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.list monitoring.timeSeries.list workloadmanager.insights.export

For more information about the Workload Manager API, see the Workload Manager API reference.

What's next

• Create and run an evaluation