This document describes the Google Cloud IAM permissions that are required to successfully provision Apigee.
You can specify permissions using the following:
The owner of the Google Cloud project that is used for Apigee provisioning already has permission to perform all of the basic Apigee provisioning steps.
If the Apigee provisioner is not the project owner, then use this document to determine the permissions needed to perform each of the provisioning steps.
If you use Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking, additional permissions in the Shared VPC project are required, and these cases are also noted in this document.
If you just want to make sure the Apigee administrator has sufficient permission to complete the provisioning, give the Apigee administrator the following IAM predefined roles; however, predefined roles may give the Apigee administrator more permissions than they need to complete provisioning. See Custom roles and permissions to provide least-necessary privileges.
To add users and roles:
In the Google Cloud console, go to IAM & Admin > IAM for your project.
Apigee Organization Admin
. Click the role listed in the results. Apigee Organization Admin
. Click the role listed in the results. Role | Required for steps | Account type | Purpose |
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Apigee Organization Adminapigee.admin |
| Paid and eval | Grants full access to all Apigee resource features. |
Service Usage Adminserviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin |
| Paid and eval | Ability to enable, disable, and inspect service states, inspect operations, and consume quota and billing for a consumer project. |
Cloud KMS Admincloudkms.admin |
| Paid only | Creating Cloud KMS keys and keyrings. |
Compute Admincompute.admin |
| Paid and eval | Listing Compute regions, setting up service networking, and creating the external HTTPS load balancer. |
To provide least-necessary privileges, create an IAM custom role and assign permissions from the following sections.
To add a custom role:
In the Google Cloud console, go to IAM & Admin > Roles for your project.
apigee.environments.create
.This permission is required for all users who will manage an organization through the Apigee UI in Cloud console. Include it in custom roles that involve management through that interface.
Role | Account type | Purpose |
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apigee.projectorganizations.get | Paid and eval |
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These permissions are required to start provisioning Apigee:
Role | Account type | Purpose |
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apigee.entitlements.get apigee.environments.create apigee.environments.get apigee.environments.list apigee.envgroups.create apigee.envgroups.get apigee.envgroups.list apigee.envgroups.update apigee.envgroupattachments.create apigee.envgroupattachments.list apigee.instances.create apigee.instances.get apigee.instances.list apigee.instanceattachments.create apigee.instanceattachments.get apigee.instanceattachments.list apigee.operations.get apigee.operations.list apigee.organizations.create apigee.organizations.get apigee.organizations.update apigee.projectorganizations.get apigee.projects.update apigee.setupcontexts.get apigee.setupcontexts.update | Paid and eval |
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These permissions are required to enable Google Cloud APIs:
Role | Account type | Purpose |
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serviceusage.services.get serviceusage.services.enable | Paid and eval | Enabling Google Cloud APIs |
These permissions are needed to create an Apigee organization for paid accounts (Subscription or Pay-as-you-go):
Permissions | Account type | Purpose |
---|---|---|
compute.regions.list | Paid only | Selecting an analytics hosting location |
cloudkms.cryptoKeys.list cloudkms.locations.list cloudkms.keyRings.list | Paid only | Selecting a runtime database encryption key |
cloudkms.cryptoKeys.create cloudkms.keyRings.create | Paid only | Creating a runtime database encryption key |
cloudkms.cryptoKeys.getIamPolicy cloudkms.cryptoKeys.setIamPolicy | Paid only | Granting Apigee service account permission to use an encryption key |
This permission is required for selecting analytics and runtime hosting regions for an eval organization:
Permissions | Account type | Purpose |
---|---|---|
compute.regions.list | Eval organizations only | Selecting analytics and runtime hosting regions |
These permissions are needed in the service networking configuration steps. If you are using Shared VPC networking, see Service networking permissions with Shared VPC.
Permissions | Account type | Purpose |
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compute.globalAddresses.createInternal compute.globalAddresses.get compute.globalAddresses.list compute.globalAddresses.use compute.networks.get compute.networks.list compute.networks.use compute.projects.get servicenetworking.operations.get servicenetworking.services.addPeering servicenetworking.services.get | Paid and eval | These permissions are required to perform the tasks in the service networking configuration step. |
If you are using Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking, a user with administrative privileges in the Shared VPC project must peer the Shared VPC project with Apigee, as described in Using shared VPC networks. Peering must be completed before the Apigee admin can complete the service networking steps. See also Administrators and IAM.
When Shared VPC is properly set up, the Apigee admin needs these permissions to complete the service networking configuration steps:
Permissions | Account type | Purpose |
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compute.projects.get | Paid and eval | The Apigee admin must have this permission in the project where Apigee is installed. This permission allows the admin to view the Shared VPC host project ID. |
Compute Network User role ( compute.networkUser ) | Paid and eval | The Apigee admin must be granted this role in the Shared VPC host project. This role allows the admin to view and select the Shared VPC network in the Apigee provisioning UI. |
These permissions are needed to create a runtime instance (Subscription and Pay-as-you-go accounts only):
Permissions | Account type | Purpose |
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compute.regions.list | Paid only | Selecting a runtime hosting location |
cloudkms.cryptoKeys.list cloudkms.locations.list cloudkms.keyRings.list | Paid only | Selecting a runtime disk encryption key |
cloudkms.cryptoKeys.create cloudkms.keyRings.create | Paid only | Creating a runtime disk encryption key |
cloudkms.cryptoKeys.getIamPolicy cloudkms.cryptoKeys.setIamPolicy | Paid only | Granting Apigee service account permission to use an encryption key |
These permissions are needed for the access routing steps:
Permissions | Account type | Purpose |
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compute.autoscalers.create compute.backendServices.create compute.backendServices.use compute.disks.create compute.globalAddresses.create compute.globalAddresses.get compute.globalAddresses.list compute.globalAddresses.use compute.globalForwardingRules.create compute.globalOperations.get compute.firewalls.create compute.firewalls.get compute.healthChecks.create compute.healthChecks.useReadOnly compute.images.get compute.images.useReadOnly compute.instances.create compute.instances.setMetadata compute.instanceGroups.use compute.instanceGroupManagers.create compute.instanceGroupManagers.use compute.instanceTemplates.get compute.instanceTemplates.create compute.instanceTemplates.useReadOnly compute.networks.get compute.networks.list compute.networks.updatePolicy compute.networks.use compute.regionOperations.get compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.create compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.delete compute.regionNetworkEndpointGroups.use compute.sslCertificates.create compute.sslCertificates.get compute.subnetworks.get compute.subnetworks.list compute.subnetworks.setPrivateIpGoogleAccess compute.subnetworks.use compute.targetHttpsProxies.create compute.targetHttpsProxies.use compute.urlMaps.create compute.urlMaps.use | Paid and eval | Configuring basic access routing |
If you are using Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking, be aware that the Shared VPC configuration and peering must be completed before you can perform the access routing step.
After the Shared VPC is set up properly, the Apigee admin requires the compute.networkUser
role in the Shared VPC project to complete the access routing steps. See also Required administrative roles for Shared VPC.
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Last updated 2025-04-24 UTC.