Prepare IAM permissions

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped appliance provides predefined Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and permissions for Vertex AI services. IAM enforces least-privilege access to appliance resources by granting granular permissions to users, user groups, and service accounts.

To grant permissions or receive role access to resources, see Grant and revoke access.

Predefined roles at the organization level

Request the appropriate permissions from your Organization IAM Admin to set up Vertex AI in an organization and manage the lifecycle of a project that uses AI services.

The following table provides details about the permissions assigned to each predefined role:

Role name Kubernetes resource name Permission description Type
AI Platform Admin ai-platform-admin Grant permissions to manage pre-trained services. ClusterRole
Project Creator project-creator Create new projects. ClusterRole

Predefined roles at the project level

Request the appropriate permissions from your Project IAM Admin to use Vertex AI services in a project. All Vertex AI roles must bind to the project namespace where you are using the service.

The following table provides details about the permissions assigned to each predefined role:

Vertex AI service Role name Kubernetes resource name Permission description Type
N/A Project IAM Admin project-iam-admin Manage the IAM allow policies of projects and create service accounts. Role
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) AI OCR Developer ai-ocr-developer Access the OCR service to detect text in images. Role
Speech-to-Text AI Speech Developer ai-speech-developer Access the Speech-to-Text service to recognize speech and transcribe audio. Role
Vertex AI Translation AI Translation Developer ai-translation-developer Access the Vertex AI Translation service to translate text. Role