About service accounts

• Create a service account
• List service accounts
• Get the details of a service account
• Update a service account
• Delete a service account
• List the spaces assigned to a service account

A service account is a non-human account used to automate tasks or carry out operations on behalf of a user. It authenticates against the Numspot API (Application Programming Interface) to manage the resources of the spaces it is attached to, within the limits of the IAM (Identity and Access Management) permissions granted to it.

General information

A service account is characterized by:

• a name, chosen at creation;
• a technical identifier, generated by Numspot;
• a secret, generated by Numspot at creation and used for authentication;
• one or more spaces it has access to;
• IAM roles that determine its permissions.

Authentication

When a service account is created, Numspot returns its technical identifier and its secret. The secret is never displayed again afterwards — you must keep it in a secure location from the moment of creation.

The technical identifier and the secret are used together to authenticate the account against the API.

Spaces and permissions

A service account can be attached to several spaces. Its permissions are defined by the IAM roles assigned to it. You can view the list of spaces assigned to a service account at any time.