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Terraform in Yandex Cloud
  • Getting started
  • Solution library
    • Overview
    • Release notes
          • iam_oauth_client
          • iam_oauth_client_secret
          • iam_service_account
          • iam_service_account_api_key
          • iam_service_account_iam_binding
          • iam_service_account_iam_member
          • iam_service_account_iam_policy
          • iam_service_account_key
          • iam_service_account_static_access_key
          • iam_workload_identity_federated_credential
          • iam_workload_identity_oidc_federation
          • iam_workload_identity_oidc_federation_iam_binding

In this article:

  • Example usage
  • Arguments & Attributes Reference
  • Import
  1. Terraform reference
  2. Resources
  3. Identity and Access Management
  4. Resources
  5. iam_service_account

yandex_iam_service_account (Resource)

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at April 9, 2026
  • Example usage
  • Arguments & Attributes Reference
  • Import

A ServiceAccount resource. For more information, see Service accounts.

Example usageExample usage

//
// Create a new IAM Service Account (SA).
//
resource "yandex_iam_service_account" "builder" {
  name        = "vmmanager"
  description = "service account to manage VMs"
}

Arguments & Attributes ReferenceArguments & Attributes Reference

  • created_at (Read-Only) (String). The creation timestamp of the resource.
  • description (Read-Only) (String). The resource description.
  • folder_id (String). The folder identifier that resource belongs to. If it is not provided, the default provider folder-id is used.
  • id (String).
  • labels (Map Of String). Resource labels as key:value pairs. Maximum of 64 per resource.
  • name (String). The resource name.
  • service_account_id (String). ID of a specific service account.
  • timeouts [Block].
    • create (String). A string that can be parsed as a duration consisting of numbers and unit suffixes, such as "30s" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "s" (seconds), "m" (minutes), "h" (hours).
    • delete (String). A string that can be parsed as a duration consisting of numbers and unit suffixes, such as "30s" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "s" (seconds), "m" (minutes), "h" (hours). Setting a timeout for a Delete operation is only applicable if changes are saved into state before the destroy operation occurs.
    • read (String). A string that can be parsed as a duration consisting of numbers and unit suffixes, such as "30s" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "s" (seconds), "m" (minutes), "h" (hours). Read operations occur during any refresh or planning operation when refresh is enabled.
    • update (String). A string that can be parsed as a duration consisting of numbers and unit suffixes, such as "30s" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "s" (seconds), "m" (minutes), "h" (hours).

ImportImport

The resource can be imported by using their resource ID. For getting it you can use Yandex Cloud Web Console or Yandex Cloud CLI.

# terraform import yandex_iam_service_account.<resource Name> <resource Id>
terraform import yandex_iam_service_account.builder aje5a**********qspd3

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