- NAME
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- gcloud beta spanner instances set-iam-policy - set the IAM policy for a Cloud Spanner instance
- SYNOPSIS
-
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gcloud beta spanner instances set-iam-policy[INSTANCE]POLICY_FILE[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
-
- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)Set the IAM policy for a Cloud Spanner instance given a instance ID and a file encoded in JSON or YAML that contains the IAM policy. - EXAMPLES
- The following command reads an IAM policy defined in a JSON file
policy.jsonand sets it for a spanner instance with the IDexample-instance:gcloud beta spanner instances set-iam-policy example-instance policy.jsonSee https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/managing-policies for details of the policy file format and contents.
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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- Instance resource - The Spanner instance to set the IAM policy for. This
represents a Cloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in
this group but can be set in other ways.
To set the
projectattribute:- provide the argument
instanceon the command line with a fully specified name; - set the property
spanner/instancewith a fully specified name; - provide the argument
--projecton the command line; - set the property
core/project.
- provide the argument
- [
INSTANCE] - ID of the instance or fully qualified identifier for the instance.
To set the
instanceattribute:- provide the argument
instanceon the command line; - set the property
spanner/instance.
- provide the argument
-
POLICY_FILE - Path to a local JSON or YAML formatted file containing a valid policy.
The output of the
get-iam-policycommand is a valid file, as is any JSON or YAML file conforming to the structure of a Policy .
- Instance resource - The Spanner instance to set the IAM policy for. This
represents a Cloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in
this group but can be set in other ways.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- 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 helpfor details. - API REFERENCE
- This command uses the
spanner/v1API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud spanner instances set-iam-policygcloud alpha spanner instances set-iam-policy
gcloud beta spanner instances set-iam-policy
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.

