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- NAME
- gcloud beta iam roles describe - show metadata for a role
- SYNOPSIS
gcloud beta iam roles describeROLE_ID[--organization=ORGANIZATION|--project=PROJECT_ID][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
- DESCRIPTION
(BETA)This command shows metadata for a role.This command can fail for the following reasons:
- The role specified does not exist.
- The active user does not have permission to access the given role.
- EXAMPLES
- To print metadata for the role
of the organizationspanner.databaseAdmin, run:1234567gcloudbetaiamrolesdescriberoles/spanner.databaseAdmin--organization=1234567To print metadata for the role
of the projectspanner.databaseAdmin, run:myprojectgcloudbetaiamrolesdescriberoles/spanner.databaseAdmin--project=myprojectTo print metadata for a predefined role,
, run:spanner.databaseAdmingcloudbetaiamrolesdescriberoles/spanner.databaseAdmin - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
ROLE_ID- ID of the role to describe. Curated roles example: roles/viewer. Custom rolesexample: CustomRole. For custom roles, you must also specify the
--organizationor--projectflag.
- FLAGS
- At most one of these can be specified:
--organization=ORGANIZATION- Organization of the role you want to describe.
--project=PROJECT_ID- Project of the role you want to describe.
The Google Cloud project ID to use for this invocation. If omitted, then thecurrent project is assumed; the current project can be listed using
gcloudconfig list --format='text(core.project)'and can be set usinggcloud config set project PROJECTID.--projectand its fallbackcore/projectproperty playtwo roles in the invocation. It specifies the project of the resource to operateon. It also specifies the project for API enablement check, quota, and billing.To specify a different project for quota and billing, use--billing-projectorbilling/quota_projectproperty.
- At most one of these can be specified:
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$gcloud helpfor details. - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. Thesevariants are also available:
gcloudiamrolesdescribegcloudalphaiamrolesdescribe
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.