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Creating a service account for App Engine via IAM

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Creating a service account for App Engine via IAM

- [Instructor] All right. Now we're going to understand how to create and manage service accounts. Service accounts are similar to a user account, except that it's designed to be used by an application or service. We can view all our service accounts by going to the Google Cloud console, going to the IAM in Admin tab, and pressing service accounts. There are two types of service accounts, the ones we create ourselves and the ones automatically created by Google Services for us. There are no differences between the two, just on how they were created. These accounts over here were created by Google automatically. This one, My Pet Project 285907@appspot.gserviceaccount.com is also known as the default app engine service account. This is the service account that our Google app engine application uses, so if you want to grant our app engine application more roles and access to other cloud services, like Cloud SQL for…

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