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These examples assume you have completed all corresponding Setup Instructions.
This example shows authenticating directly with Workload Identity Federation.
Google Cloud Resources must have the Workload Identity Pool as a principalSet
as an IAM permission.
jobs:
job_id:
permissions:
contents: 'read'
id-token: 'write'
- id: 'auth'
uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
with:
project_id: 'my-project'
workload_identity_provider: 'projects/123456789/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/my-pool/providers/my-provider'
# Use 'steps.auth.outputs.auth_token' in subsequent steps as a bearer token.
#
# - run: |-
# curl -H 'Bearer: ${{ steps.auth.outputs.auth_token }}' https://...
#
This example shows authenticating to Google Cloud by proxying through a Service Account. Future authentication calls will be made with the Service Account's OAuth 2.0 Access token.
jobs:
job_id:
permissions:
contents: 'read'
id-token: 'write'
- uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
with:
project_id: 'my-project'
workload_identity_provider: 'projects/123456789/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/my-pool/providers/my-provider'
service_account: '[email protected]'
# NOTE: 'steps.auth.outputs.auth_token' will be a federated authentication
# token, it does not correspond to the service account. To get a token for
# the service account, specify the 'token_format' parameter and use the
# 'accesss_token' output.
#
# - uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
# with:
# workload_identity_provider: 'projects/123456789/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/my-pool/providers/my-provider'
# service_account: '[email protected]'
# token_format: 'access_token'
#
# - run: |-
# curl -H 'Bearer: ${{ steps.auth.outputs.access_token }}' https://...
#
This example demonstrates authenticating via a Google Cloud Service Account Key JSON. After you export a Google Cloud Service Account Key, insert the value into a GitHub Secret named 'GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS'.
jobs:
job_id:
steps:
- uses: 'actions/checkout@v4'
- uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
with:
credentials_json: '${{ secrets.GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS }}'
This example demonstrates using this GitHub Action to configure authentication
for the gcloud
CLI tool.
jobs:
job_id:
permissions:
contents: 'read'
id-token: 'write'
steps:
- uses: 'actions/checkout@v4'
- id: 'auth'
uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
with:
project_id: 'my-project'
workload_identity_provider: 'projects/123456789/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/my-pool/providers/my-provider'
- name: 'Set up Cloud SDK'
uses: 'google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v2'
This example demonstrates using this GitHub Action to generate an OAuth 2.0 Access Token for authenticating to Google Cloud.
Note
The default lifetime is 1 hour, but you can request up to 12 hours if you set
the constraints/iam.allowServiceAccountCredentialLifetimeExtension
organization policy.
Important
If you authenticate via credentials_json
, the service account must have
roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator
on itself.
jobs:
job_id:
permissions:
contents: 'read'
id-token: 'write'
steps:
- uses: 'actions/checkout@v4'
- id: 'auth'
uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
with:
token_format: 'access_token' # <--
workload_identity_provider: 'projects/123456789/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/my-pool/providers/my-provider'
service_account: '[email protected]'
access_token_lifetime: '300s' # optional, default: '3600s' (1 hour)
# Example of using the output. The token is usually provided as a Bearer
# token.
- id: 'access-secret'
run: |-
curl https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1/projects/my-project/secrets/my-secret/versions/1:access \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${{ steps.auth.outputs.access_token }}"
This example demonstrates using this GitHub Action to generate a Google Cloud ID Token for authenticating to Google Cloud. This is commonly used when invoking a Cloud Run service.
Important
If you authenticate via credentials_json
, the service account must have
roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator
on itself.
jobs:
job_id:
permissions:
contents: 'read'
id-token: 'write'
steps:
- uses: 'actions/checkout@v4'
- id: 'auth'
uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
with:
token_format: 'id_token' # <--
workload_identity_provider: 'projects/123456789/locations/global/workloadIdentityPools/my-pool/providers/my-provider'
service_account: '[email protected]'
id_token_audience: 'https://myapp-uvehjacqzq.a.run.app' # required, value depends on target
id_token_include_email: true
# Example of using the output. The token is usually provided as a Bearer
# token.
- id: 'invoke-service'
run: |-
curl https://myapp-uvehjacqzq.a.run.app \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${{ steps.auth.outputs.id_token }}"