gcloud iam service-accounts create - create a service account for a project
gcloud iam service-accounts create NAME [--description=DESCRIPTION] [--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
This command creates a service account with the provided name. For subsequent commands regarding service accounts, this service account should be referred to by the email account in the response.
To create a service account for your project, run:
$ gcloud iam service-accounts create some-account-name \ --display-name="My Service Account"
To work with this service account in subsequent IAM commands, use the email resulting from this call as the IAM_ACCOUNT argument.
- NAME
The internal name of the new service account. Used to generate an IAM_ACCOUNT (an IAM internal email address used as an identifier of service account), which must be passed to subsequent commands.
- --description=DESCRIPTION
A textual description for the account.
- --display-name=DISPLAY_NAME
A textual name to display for the account.
These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
These variants are also available:
$ gcloud alpha iam service-accounts create
$ gcloud beta iam service-accounts create