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This tutorial shows you how to deploy a containerized application using anauthenticated Cloud Run service that receives events throughEventarc.
Note: All Cloud Run services are deployed privately by default, which means that they can't be accessed without providing authentication credentials in the request. For projects with domain restricted sharing organization policies, use an authenticated Cloud Run target service rather than one that allowspublic (unauthenticated) access.
By specifying filters for an Eventarc trigger, you canconfigure the routing of events, including the event source and the eventtarget. In this case, an update to a Cloud Storage bucket triggersthe event and a request is sent to your Cloud Run service inthe form of an of HTTP request.
Objectives
In this tutorial, you will:
Create a Cloud Storage bucket to be the event source.
Deploy an event receiver service to Cloud Run thatrequires authenticated invocations.
Create an Eventarc trigger that routes events fromthe Cloud Storage bucket to the Cloud Runservice.
Generate an event by uploading a file to the Cloud Storage bucketand view the event in the Cloud Run logs.
Costs
In this document, you use the following billable components of Google Cloud:
To generate a cost estimate based on your projected usage, use thepricing calculator.
Before you begin
Security constraints defined by your organization might prevent you from completing the following steps. For troubleshooting information, seeDevelop applications in a constrained Google Cloud environment.
- Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
Install the Google Cloud CLI.
If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.
Toinitialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
gcloudinit
Create or select a Google Cloud project.
Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.Roles required to select or create a project
- Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
- Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (
roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains theresourcemanager.projects.createpermission.Learn how to grant roles.
Create a Google Cloud project:
gcloud projects createPROJECT_ID
Replace
PROJECT_IDwith a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.Select the Google Cloud project that you created:
gcloud config set projectPROJECT_ID
Replace
PROJECT_IDwith your Google Cloud project name.
Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.
Install the Google Cloud CLI.
If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.
Toinitialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
gcloudinit
Create or select a Google Cloud project.
Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.Roles required to select or create a project
- Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
- Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (
roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains theresourcemanager.projects.createpermission.Learn how to grant roles.
Create a Google Cloud project:
gcloud projects createPROJECT_ID
Replace
PROJECT_IDwith a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.Select the Google Cloud project that you created:
gcloud config set projectPROJECT_ID
Replace
PROJECT_IDwith your Google Cloud project name.
Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.
- If you are not using Cloud Shell, update the Google Cloud CLIcomponents and log in using your account:
gcloudcomponentsupdategcloudauthlogin
- Enable the APIs:
gcloudservicesenableartifactregistry.googleapis.com\cloudbuild.googleapis.com\eventarc.googleapis.com\run.googleapis.com\storage.googleapis.com
- Set the configuration variables used in this tutorial:
exportREGION=us-central1gcloudconfigsetrun/region${REGION}gcloudconfigsetrun/platformmanagedgcloudconfigseteventarc/location${REGION}
- You or your administrator must grant the deployer account, the trigger identity, and optionally, the Pub/Sub service agent the following IAM roles.
Required roles for the deployer account
If you are the project creator, you are granted thebasic Owner role(
roles/owner). By default, this Identity and Access Management (IAM) roleincludes the permissions necessary for full access to most Google Cloudresources and you can skip this step.If you are not the project creator, required permissions must be granted onthe project to the appropriateprincipal. For example, a principal can bea Google Account (for end users) or a service account (for applications andcompute workloads). For more information, see theRoles and permissions pagefor your event destination.
To get the permissions that you need to complete this tutorial, ask your administrator to grant you the following IAM roles on your project:
- Cloud Build Editor (
roles/cloudbuild.builds.editor) - Cloud Run Admin (
roles/run.admin) - Cloud Run Source Developer (
roles/run.sourceDeveloper) - Eventarc Admin (
roles/eventarc.admin) - Logs View Accessor (
roles/logging.viewAccessor) - Project IAM Admin (
roles/resourcemanager.projectIamAdmin) - Service Account Admin (
roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin) - Service Account User (
roles/iam.serviceAccountUser) - Service Usage Admin (
roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin) - Storage Admin (
roles/storage.admin)
For more information about granting roles, seeManage access to projects, folders, and organizations.
You might also be able to get the required permissions throughcustom roles or otherpredefined roles.
Note that by default,Cloud Build permissions include permissions to upload and download Artifact Registry artifacts.
- Cloud Build Editor (
Required roles for the trigger identity
Make note of theCompute Enginedefault service account as you will you attach it to an Eventarc trigger to representthe identity of the trigger for testing purposes. This service account is automatically createdafter enabling or using a Google Cloud service that uses Compute Engine, and with thefollowing email format:
PROJECT_NUMBER-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com
Replace
PROJECT_NUMBERwith your Google Cloudproject number. You can find your project number on theWelcomepage of the Google Cloud console or by running the following command:gcloudprojectsdescribePROJECT_ID--format='value(projectNumber)'
For production environments, we strongly recommendcreating a new service accountand granting it one or more IAM roles that contain theminimum permissions requiredand follow the principle ofleast privilege.
Note:The
iam.automaticIamGrantsForDefaultServiceAccountsorganization policy constraint prevents the Editor role from being automatically granted to default service accounts. If you created your organization after May 3, 2024, this constraint is enforced by default.We strongly recommend that you enforce this constraint to disable the automatic role grant. If you disable the automatic role grant, you must decide which roles to grant to the default service accounts, and thengrant these roles yourself.
If the default service account already has the Editor role, we recommend that you replace the Editor role with less permissive roles.To safely modify the service account's roles, usePolicy Simulator to see the impact of the change, and thengrant and revoke the appropriate roles.
- By default, Cloud Run services are only callable by ProjectOwners, Project Editors, and Cloud Run Admins and Invokers.You cancontrolaccess on a per-service basis; however, for testing purposes, grant theCloud RunInvoker role (
run.invoker) on the Google Cloud project to theCompute Engine service account. This grants the role on allCloud Run services and jobs in a project.gcloudprojectsadd-iam-policy-bindingPROJECT_ID\--member=serviceAccount:PROJECT_NUMBER-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com\--role=roles/run.invoker
Note that if you create a trigger for an authenticatedCloud Run service without granting the Cloud RunInvoker role, the trigger is created successfully and is active. However, thetrigger will not work as expected and a message similar to the following appearsin the logs:
The request was not authenticated. Either allowunauthenticated invocations or set the proper Authorization header. - Grant theEventarcEvent Receiver role (
roles/eventarc.eventReceiver) on theproject to the Compute Engine default service account so thatthe Eventarc trigger can receive events from event providers.gcloudprojectsadd-iam-policy-bindingPROJECT_ID\--member=serviceAccount:PROJECT_NUMBER-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com\--role=roles/eventarc.eventReceiver
Optional role for the Pub/Sub service agent
- If you enabled the Cloud Pub/Sub service agent on or before April8, 2021, to support authenticated Pub/Sub push requests, granttheServiceAccount Token Creator role (
roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator)to the service agent. Otherwise, this role is granted by default:gcloudprojectsadd-iam-policy-bindingPROJECT_ID\--member=serviceAccount:service-PROJECT_NUMBER@gcp-sa-pubsub.iam.gserviceaccount.com\--role=roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator
Create an Artifact Registry standard repository
Create an Artifact Registry standard repository to store your container image:
gcloudartifactsrepositoriescreateREPOSITORY\--repository-format=docker\--location=$REGION
ReplaceREPOSITORY with a unique name for therepository.
Create a Cloud Storage bucket
Create a Cloud Storage bucket to use as the event source:
gcloudstoragebucketscreategs://PROJECT_ID-bucket/--location=us-central1After the event source is created, you can deploy the event receiver service onCloud Run.
Deploy an event receiver to Cloud Run
Deploy a Cloud Run service that receives and logsevents.
Clone the GitHub repository:
Node.js
gitclonehttps://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples.git
Alternatively, you can download the sample as a zip file and extract it.
Python
gitclonehttps://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git
Alternatively, you can download the sample as a zip file and extract it.
Go
gitclonehttps://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples.git
Alternatively, you can download the sample as a zip file and extract it.
Java
gitclonehttps://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples.git
Alternatively, you can download the sample as a zip file and extract it.
C#
gitclonehttps://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples.git
Alternatively, you can download the sample as a zip file and extract it.
Change to the directory that contains the Cloud Runsample code:
Node.js
cdnodejs-docs-samples/eventarc/audit-storage/Python
cdpython-docs-samples/eventarc/audit-storage/Go
cdgolang-samples/eventarc/audit_storage/Java
cdjava-docs-samples/eventarc/audit-storage/C#
cddotnet-docs-samples/eventarc/audit-storage/Build the container for the Cloud Run service:
exportPROJECT_ID=$(gcloudconfigget-valueproject)exportSERVICE_NAME=helloworld-eventsgcloudbuildssubmit--tag$REGION-docker.pkg.dev/${PROJECT_ID}/REPOSITORY/${SERVICE_NAME}:v1
Deploy the container image to Cloud Run:
gcloudrundeploy${SERVICE_NAME}\--image$REGION-docker.pkg.dev/${PROJECT_ID}/REPOSITORY/${SERVICE_NAME}:v1
At theAllow public access tohelloworld-events (y/N)? prompt, respond
nfor "No".
When you see the Cloud Run service URL, the deployment iscomplete.
Create an Eventarc trigger
The Eventarc trigger sends events from theCloud Storage bucket to thehelloworld-eventsCloud Run service. The service requires authentication,and the event should be triggered by a caller that has a service account withtherequired IAM roles and permissionsto use the resource.
Create a trigger that filters Cloud Storage events:
gcloudeventarctriggerscreate${SERVICE_NAME}\--destination-run-service=${SERVICE_NAME}\--destination-run-region=${REGION}\--location=${REGION}\--event-filters="type=google.cloud.storage.object.v1.finalized"\--event-filters="bucket=PROJECT_ID-bucket"\--service-account=PROJECT_NUMBER-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com
This creates a trigger called
helloworld-events.Note that when creating an Eventarc trigger for the firsttime in a Google Cloud project, there might be a delay in provisioningthe Eventarc service agent. This issue can usually be resolvedby attempting to create the trigger again. For more information, seePermission denied errors.
Confirm that the trigger was successfully created. Note that although yourtrigger is created immediately, it can take up to two minutes for a triggerto be fully functional.
gcloudeventarctriggerslist--location=${REGION}
The output should be similar to the following:
NAME: helloworld-eventsTYPE: google.cloud.storage.object.v1.finalizedDESTINATION: Cloud Run service: helloworld-eventsACTIVE: Yes
Generate and view an event
Upload a text file to the Cloud Storage bucket to generate an eventwhich is routed to the Cloud Run service. TheCloud Run service logs the event in the service logs.
To generate an event:
Upload a text file to Cloud Storage:
echo "Hello World" > random.txt gcloud storage cp random.txt gs://PROJECT_ID-bucket/random.txt
The upload generates an event and the Cloud Runservice logs the event's message.
To view the log entry:
Filter the log entries and return the output in JSON format:
gcloud logging read "resource.labels.service_name=helloworld-events AND textPayload:random.txt" --format=json
Look for a log entry similar to:
Note: If you do not see a log entry, wait a few minutes and retry the"textPayload": "Detected change in Cloud Storage bucket: objects/random.txt"
gcloud logging readcommand. The trigger can take up to two minutesafter being created to start filtering events.
Logs might take a few moments to appear. If you don't see them immediately,check again after a minute.
Success: You deployed a containerized application using an authenticated Cloud Run service that receives events through Eventarc.Clean up
If you created a new project for this tutorial,delete the project.If you used an existing project and want to keep it without the changes addedin this tutorial,delete the resources created for the tutorial.
Delete the project
The easiest way to eliminate billing is to delete the project that you created for the tutorial.
To delete the project:
Delete tutorial resources
Delete the Cloud Run service you deployed in this tutorial:
gcloudrunservicesdeleteSERVICE_NAME
Where
SERVICE_NAMEis your chosen service name.You can also delete Cloud Run services from theGoogle Cloud console.
Remove any gcloud CLI default configurations you added duringthe tutorial setup.
For example:
gcloud config unset run/regionor
gcloud config unset projectDelete other Google Cloud resources created in this tutorial:
- Delete the Eventarc trigger:
Replacegcloud eventarc triggers deleteTRIGGER_NAME
TRIGGER_NAMEwith the name of yourtrigger.
- Delete the Eventarc trigger:
What's next
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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.