What are service accounts?
A service account is a special kind of account used by an application or compute workload, such as a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance, rather than a person. Applications use service accounts to make authorized API calls, authorized as either the service account itself or as Google Workspace or Cloud Identity users through domain-wide delegation.
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In order to use a Google service account with ADvendio, it will be necessary to own an active Google Ad Manager Account. |
Process Overview
This paragraph will show the necessary steps to create a Google Service Account and use it with ADvendio:
1. Create a Service Account in the Google Cloud Platform
2. Create a Service Account in the Google Ad Manager Platform by using the previously created account
3. Create a Google Type Connection in ADvendio by using the account as a username and create an OAuth token to enable the connection
1. Creating a service account in the Google Cloud Platform
When you create a service account, you must provide an alphanumeric ID (SA_NAME in the samples below), such as my-service-account. The ID must be between 6 and 30 characters and can contain lowercase alphanumeric characters and dashes. After you create a service account, you cannot change its name.
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After you create a service account, you might need to wait for 60 seconds or more before you use the service account. This behavior occurs because read operations are eventually consistent; it can take time for the new service account to become visible. If you try to read or use a service account immediately after you create it, and you receive an error, you can retry the request with exponential backoff.
1.1 Steps:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Create service account page.
Select a Cloud project.
Enter a service account name to display in the Google Cloud console.
The Google Cloud console generates a service account ID based on this name. Edit the ID if necessary. You cannot change the ID later.
Optional: Enter a description of the service account.
If you do not want to set access controls now, click Done to finish creating the service account.
To set access controls now, click Create and continue and continue to the next step.
When you are done adding roles, click Continue.
Click Done to finish creating the service account.
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Also, if the service account needs to access resources in other projects, you usually must enable the APIs for those resources in the project where you created the service account.
2. Create a Service Account in the Google Ad Manager Platform
After creating a Service Account in the Google Cloud console, access the Google Ad Manager Platform and go to Admin → Access & authorization.
Create a new user by pressing the button “New User“ and insert the info related to the previously created service account, as shown in the following image:
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3. Create a Google Type Connection in ADvendio
Use the App Launcher to navigate to the AdServer Login page or click on the “Overview” tab, where you will find the section "AdServer Interface", and within this section click on “Connections”
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