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Create Service Account & Credential

This documentation will guide you on how to create a service account in GCP and create credentials to access the same.

Navigate to Service Accounts

Login to your GCP console and navigate to service accounts page.

{% image src="/images/v1.4/connectors/bigquery/bq-service-account-search.png" alt="Navigate to Service Accounts" caption="Navigate to Service Accounts" /%}

Create Service Account & Grant Role

Once you are on service account page, click on Create Service Account button.

{% image src="/images/v1.4/connectors/bigquery/bq-create-service-account.png" alt="Create Service Accounts" caption="Create Service Accounts" /%}

Fill the service account details

{% image src="/images/v1.4/connectors/bigquery/bq-create-service-account-1.png" alt="Create Service Accounts" caption="Create Service Accounts" /%}

Grant a role to service account which has all the required permission to ingest BigQuery metadata in OpenMetadata checkout this documentation for details on how to create a custom role with required permissions.

{% image src="/images/v1.4/connectors/bigquery/bq-service-account-grant-role.png" alt="Grant Role to Service Account" caption="Grant Role to Service Account" /%}

Create Key Credentials

On service accounts page, look for the service account that you just created, click on the three dots menu and go to manage keys

{% image src="/images/v1.4/connectors/bigquery/bq-service-account-manage-keys.png" alt="Service Account Manage Keys" caption="Service Account Manage Keys" /%}

Click on Add Key > New Key > Select Json and download the key.

{% image src="/images/v1.4/connectors/bigquery/bq-create-service-account-key.png" alt="Create New Key" caption="Create New Key" /%}

{% image src="/images/v1.4/connectors/bigquery/bq-create-key-modal.png" alt="Download json Key" caption="Download json Key" /%}

Open this downloaded key and you will get all the required credentials details to fetch metadata from Bigquery.