create a service account on Gcloud

Question

I need to create a service account for Gcloud manually. How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

To create a service account, at minimum the user must be granted the Service Account Admin role (roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin) or the Editor primitive role (roles/editor).

Execute the gcloud iam service-accounts create command to create a service account.

Command:

gcloud iam service-accounts create [SA-NAME] \
    --description "[SA-DESCRIPTION]" \
    --display-name "[SA-DISPLAY-NAME]"

The output is the service account:

Created service account [SA-NAME].

After you create a service account, grant one or more roles to the service account so that it can act on your behalf.

For more info check https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-accounts#iam-service-accounts-create-gcloud