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:

• Service Producer
  • Managed Services
    • Service Configurations
    • Service Rollouts
    • Service Consumers

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:

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

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:

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:[email protected]" --role "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer"

# Add a group to "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer" role.
gcloud endpoints services add-iam-policy-binding endpointsapis.appspot.com --member "group:[email protected]" --role "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer"

# Remove a user from "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer" role.
gcloud endpoints services remove-iam-policy-binding endpointsapis.appspot.com --member "user:[email protected]" --role "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer"

# Remove a group from "roles/servicemanagement.serviceConsumer" role.
gcloud endpoints services remove-iam-policy-binding endpointsapis.appspot.com --member "group:[email protected]" --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