Credentials in a Property

You can configure a Google Cloud stage to use credentials specified in a stage property. When using credentials in stage properties, you provide JSON-formatted credentials from a Google Cloud service account credential file.

You can enter credential details in plain text, but best practice is to secure the credential details using runtime resources or a credential store.credential store. For more information about credential stores, see Credential Stores in the Data Collector documentation.

Complete the following steps to use credentials specified in stage properties:

1. Generate a service account credentials file in JSON format.

   Use the Google Cloud Platform Console or the gcloud command-line tool to generate and download the credentials file. For more information, see Generating a service account credential in the Google Cloud Platform documentation.

2. As a best practice, secure the credentials using runtime resources or a credential store.credential store. For more information about credential stores, see Credential Stores in the Data Collector documentation.
3. On the Credentials tab for the stage, for the Credential Provider property, select Service Account Credentials. Then, enter the JSON-formatted credential details or an expression that calls the credentials from a credential store.