gcloud auth - manage oauth2 credentials for the Google Cloud CLI
gcloud auth GROUP | COMMAND [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
The gcloud auth command group lets you grant and revoke authorization to Google Cloud CLI (gcloud CLI) to access Google Cloud. Typically, when scripting Google Cloud CLI tools for use on multiple machines, using gcloud auth activate-service-account is recommended.
For information about authorization and credential types, see Authorizing the gcloud CLI https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/authorizing. For information about authorizing a service account, see Authorizing with a service account https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/authorizing#authorizing_with_a_service_account.
After running gcloud auth commands, you can run other commands with --account=ACCOUNT to authenticate the command with the credentials of the specified account. For information about --account and other gcloud CLI global flags, see the gcloud CLI overview https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference.
To authenticate a user account with gcloud and minimal user output, run:
$ gcloud auth login --brief
To list all credentialed accounts and identify the current active account, run:
$ gcloud auth list
To revoke credentials for a user account (like logging out), run:
$ gcloud auth revoke test@gmail.com
These flags are available to all commands: --help.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
GROUP is one of the following:
- application-default
Manage your active Application Default Credentials.
COMMAND is one of the following:
- activate-service-account
Authorize access to Google Cloud with a service account.
- configure-docker
Register gcloud as a Docker credential helper.
- list
Lists credentialed accounts.
- login
Authorize gcloud to access the Cloud Platform with Google user credentials.
- print-access-token
Print an access token for the specified account.
- print-identity-token
Print an identity token for the specified account.
- revoke
Revoke access credentials for an account.
These variants are also available:
$ gcloud alpha auth
$ gcloud beta auth