an example of gcp service account

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GCP Service Account Example

this is an example of gcp service account. Clearly, service account has a private key and a certificate.

So GCP uses public-key cryptography (+ certificate to validate wheather public key is falsificated) to authenticate the service account.

gcp-service-account-example.json

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "private_key_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nxxxxxxxxxxxxx\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/xxxxxxxxxxxxx%40xxxxxxxxxxxxx.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}