gcloud iam workload-identity-pools managed-identities update (MANAGED_IDENTITY : --location=LOCATION --namespace=NAMESPACE --workload-identity-pool=WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_POOL) [--async] [--description=DESCRIPTION] [--disabled] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
my-managed-identity:
gcloud iam workload-identity-pools managed-identities update my-managed-identity --location="global" --workload-identity-pool="my-workload-identity-pool" --namespace="my-namespace" --description="My managed identity description" --disabled
To set the project attribute:
managed_identity on the command line with a
fully specified name;
--project on the command line;
core/project.
MANAGED_IDENTITY
To set the managed_identity attribute:
managed_identity on the command line.
--location=LOCATIONlocation attribute:
managed_identity on the command line with a
fully specified name;
--location on the command line.
--namespace=NAMESPACEgcp- is reserved for
use by Google, and may not be specified.
To set the namespace attribute:
managed_identity on the command line with a
fully specified name;
--namespace on the command line.
--workload-identity-pool=WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_POOLgcp- is reserved for use by Google, and may
not be specified.
To set the workload-identity-pool attribute:
managed_identity on the command line with a
fully specified name;
--workload-identity-pool on the command line.
--async--description=DESCRIPTION--disabled--access-token-file,
--account, --billing-project,
--configuration,
--flags-file,
--flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account,
--log-http,
--project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled,
--verbosity.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
iam/v1 API. The full documentation for this
API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/iam/
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.