Using google cloud service account

Question

I am given a google cloud service account with 1] A client id 2] An email id 3] Certificate fingerprint 4] .p12 file

I had a java process previously that was communicating with big query with my own personal email account with client secret file etc. This setup is working just fine.

Now that I have to use this service account, I did not see any client secret provided with this account. I am wondering how am i supposed to integrate this service account into my current process.

I tried to find a bunch of things on google but finally found this: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2ServiceAccount

is this correct way to use this or for service accounts there is something else ? Is there a better example somewhere where i can see proper steps to use the info i have to access google cloud from my app with a service account.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, the link you have is the way to use service account. You need to get the "client secret" from the developer console, in the form of a json or p12 file.

As for example, storage-serviceaccount-cmdline-sample should serve as a good simple sample.