Service Management API Access Control

The Service Management API uses Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) to control access to managed services and their child resources. This page explains the IAM resources, roles, and permissions provided by the Service Management API, and how to use them to control access.

IAM resources

IAM applies IAM policies on resources to control who can perform what actions on the resources. The Service Management API uses the following resources to provide its functionality:

You will need different permissions to use and manage different resources, see the following sections for details.

IAM permissions

Calls to the Service Management API require the caller to have the necessary IAM permissions on the target resources.

The following table lists the permissions that apply to services:

Permission Description
servicemanagement.services.delete Delete services.
servicemanagement.services.get Read services.
servicemanagement.services.create Create new services in projects.
servicemanagement.services.list List services in projects.
servicemanagement.services.update Update services.
servicemanagement.services.bind View and enable the service on projects the caller controls.
servicemanagement.services.setIamPolicy Set IAM access policy for services.
servicemanagement.services.getIamPolicy Read IAM access policy for services.
servicemanagement.services.check Check service consumer status. See services.check
servicemanagement.services.quota Allocate quota for a service consumer. See services.allocateQuota
servicemanagement.services.report Report service usage. See services.report

The following table shows the required permissions for each Service Management API method, where applicable. This information is also documented in the API Reference:

Method Required Permission(s)
services.delete servicemanagement.services.delete on the specified service_name.
services.get servicemanagement.services.get on the specified service_name.
services.getConfig servicemanagement.services.get on the specified service_name.
services.undelete servicemanagement.services.delete on the specified service_name.
services.configs.create servicemanagement.services.update on the specified service_name.
services.configs.get servicemanagement.services.get on the specified service_name.
services.configs.list servicemanagement.services.get on the specified service_name.
services.configs.submit servicemanagement.services.update on the specified service_name.
services.rollouts.create servicemanagement.services.update on the specified service_name.
services.rollouts.get servicemanagement.services.get on the specified service_name.
services.rollouts.list servicemanagement.services.get on the specified service_name.

IAM roles

With Identity and Access Management, permissions are granted by binding users to roles. See Understanding Roles for details.

The following table lists the roles that apply to services:

Role Permissions
roles/viewer servicemanagement.services.get
servicemanagement.services.list
roles/editor All permissions of roles/viewer, plus

servicemanagement.services.bind
servicemanagement.services.check
servicemanagement.services.create
servicemanagement.services.delete
servicemanagement.services.quota
servicemanagement.services.report
servicemanagement.services.update
roles/owner All permissions of roles/editor, plus

servicemanagement.services.getIamPolicy
servicemanagement.services.setIamPolicy
roles/servicemanagement.admin monitoring.timeSeries.list
resourcemanager.folders.get
resourcemanager.folders.list
resourcemanager.organizations.get
resourcemanager.projects.get
resourcemanager.projects.list
serviceconsumermanagement.consumers.get
serviceconsumermanagement.quota.get
serviceconsumermanagement.quota.update
serviceconsumermanagement.tenancyu.addResource
serviceconsumermanagement.tenancyu.create
serviceconsumermanagement.tenancyu.delete
serviceconsumermanagement.tenancyu.list
serviceconsumermanagement.tenancyu.removeResource
servicemanagement.services.bind
servicemanagement.services.check
servicemanagement.services.create
servicemanagement.services.delete
servicemanagement.services.get
servicemanagement.services.getIamPolicy
servicemanagement.services.list
servicemanagement.services.quota
servicemanagement.services.report
servicemanagement.services.setIamPolicy
servicemanagement.services.update
serviceusage.quotas.get
serviceusage.services.get
roles/servicemanagement.configEditor servicemanagement.services.get
servicemanagement.services.update
roles/servicemanagement.reporter servicemanagement.services.report
roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer servicemanagement.services.bind
roles/servicemanagement.serviceController servicemanagement.services.check
servicemanagement.services.get
servicemanagement.services.quota
servicemanagement.services.report

Managing policies

IAM evaluates policies hierarchically: a child resource always inherits the policy of its parent. For the Service Management API, each managed service is a child resource of its service producer project. Therefore the roles granted on the service producer project apply to all managed services that belong to the project. See Managing Policies for the instructions for granting roles at the project level.

You can also manage the IAM policy for an individual service. The following sections describe how to manage service-level roles using Google Cloud console, Service Management API, and Google Cloud CLI.

Managing access using Google Cloud console

  1. Open the Endpoints page in the Google Cloud console.

    Open the Endpoints page

  2. Click the service that you want to manage access for.
  3. Click the "PERMISSIONS" link at the top of the page. This toggles the info panel on and off.
  4. From the info panel, you can view the list of current members, add new members, and remove members, for any service-level role.

Managing access using gcloud CLI

gcloud CLI includes gcloud endpoints services commands to manage IAM policies for managed services:

  • endpoints services get-iam-policy
    • Show the IAM policy of the service.
  • endpoints services check-iam-policy
    • Check the IAM policy of the service.
  • endpoints services add-iam-policy-binding
    • Add a member to a role.
  • endpoints services remove-iam-policy-binding
    • Remove a member from a role.

For example:

# Show the IAM policy of service "endpointsapis.appspot.com".
gcloud endpoints services get-iam-policy endpointsapis.appspot.com

# The above command may produce an output similar to this:
bindings:
- members:
  - user:email1@gmail.com
  - group:group1@googlegroups.com
  role: roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer

# Add a user to "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer" role.
gcloud endpoints services add-iam-policy-binding endpointsapis.appspot.com --member "user:email1@gmail.com" --role "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer"

# Add a group to "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer" role.
gcloud endpoints services add-iam-policy-binding endpointsapis.appspot.com --member "group:group1@googlegroups.com" --role "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer"

# Remove a user from "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer" role.
gcloud endpoints services remove-iam-policy-binding endpointsapis.appspot.com --member "user:email1@gmail.com" --role "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer"

# Remove a group from "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer" role.
gcloud endpoints services remove-iam-policy-binding endpointsapis.appspot.com --member "group:group1@googlegroups.com" --role "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer"

Managing access using the Service Management API

The Service Management API includes the IAM Policy API for managing service-level and consumer-level policies. You can use the gcurl command to experiment with the API methods. See Getting Started for the initial setup steps.

For example:

# View the current IAM policy on service "endpointsapis.appspot.com".
gcurl -d '{}' https://servicemanagement.googleapis.com/v1/services/endpointsapis.appspot.com:getIamPolicy

# View the current IAM policy on service "endpointsapis.appspot.com" and consumer "12345".
gcurl -d '{}' https://servicemanagement.googleapis.com/v1/services/endpointsapis.appspot.com/consumers/12345:getIamPolicy