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Show the permissions and metadata for a specific IAM role

command

gcloud iam roles describe ROLE_ID

also accepted

gcloud iam roles describe

Command breakdown

Part of the Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) — IAM category.

gcloudiamrolesdescribeROLE_ID

More IAM commands

Create a custom IAM role from a YAML definition filegcloud iam roles create devReadRole --project=my-project --file=role-definition.yaml
List all custom IAM roles defined in a specific projectgcloud iam roles list --project PROJECT_ID
Create a custom IAM role in a project from a YAML permissions filegcloud iam roles create ROLE_ID --project PROJECT_ID --file YAML_FILE
Add one or more permissions to an existing custom IAM role in a projectgcloud iam roles update ROLE_ID --project PROJECT_ID --add-permissions PERMISSION
Copy an existing IAM role to create a new custom role in a destination projectgcloud iam roles copy --source SOURCE_ROLE --destination DEST_ROLE --dest-project PROJECT_ID
Revoke a specific IAM role from a member on a projectgcloud projects remove-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member MEMBER --role ROLE
Replace the entire IAM policy on a project with a policy defined in a JSON filegcloud projects set-iam-policy PROJECT_ID POLICY_FILE
List only the custom IAM roles defined within a specific projectgcloud iam roles list --project PROJECT_ID

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