- NAME
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- gcloud beta iam service-accounts create - create a service account for a project
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta iam service-accounts createNAME[--description=DESCRIPTION] [--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)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. - EXAMPLES
- To create a service account for your project, run:
gcloud beta 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.
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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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.
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- FLAGS
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--description=DESCRIPTION - A textual description for the account.
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--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME - A textual name to display for the account.
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- 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. - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud iam service-accounts creategcloud alpha iam service-accounts create
gcloud beta iam service-accounts create
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.
