Required. The account id that is used to generate the service account email address and a stable unique id. It is unique within a project, must be 6-30 characters long, and match the regular expression[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])to comply with RFC1035.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-05-21 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThis API endpoint allows you to create a new ServiceAccount within a specified project.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe HTTP request uses a \u003ccode\u003ePOST\u003c/code\u003e method with a URL structure that follows gRPC Transcoding syntax, requiring the project's resource name in the path.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe request body requires you to provide an \u003ccode\u003eaccountId\u003c/code\u003e and the details for the \u003ccode\u003eserviceAccount\u003c/code\u003e you want to create.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eSuccessful requests will return a newly created instance of the \u003ccode\u003eServiceAccount\u003c/code\u003e resource in the response body.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eCreating a service account requires authorization through one of the provided OAuth scopes: \u003ccode\u003ehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam\u003c/code\u003e or \u003ccode\u003ehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform\u003c/code\u003e, along with the \u003ccode\u003eiam.serviceAccounts.create\u003c/code\u003e permission.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Method: projects.serviceAccounts.create\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Path parameters](#body.PATH_PARAMETERS)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n - [JSON representation](#body.request_body.SCHEMA_REPRESENTATION)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n- [Examples](#examples)\n- [Try it!](#try-it)\n\nCreates a [ServiceAccount](/iam/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.serviceAccounts#ServiceAccount).\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/{name=projects/*}/serviceAccounts`\n\nThe URL uses [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\n### Path parameters\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body contains data with the following structure:\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of [ServiceAccount](/iam/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.serviceAccounts#ServiceAccount).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires one of the following OAuth scopes:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform`\n\nFor more information, see the [Authentication Overview](/docs/authentication#authorization-gcp)."]]
