Connect your app to Google Cloud API
Connect your Lovable app directly to Google Cloud to view resources, check logs, and inspect metrics without storing secret keys. The integration uses keyless identity federation to let your app act as a dedicated service account.
Anyone building internal dashboards, monitoring tools, or inventory views for their Google Cloud organization.
Do this, in order
- 1
Open Google Cloud Shell Editor in the Google Cloud Console and authorize your credentials.
You need a command line environment with access to your Google Cloud project to run the configuration script.
- 2
Copy the provided setup script into a file in Cloud Shell, adding your Google Cloud project ID and Lovable workspace ID.
The script automates creating the required identity pool, identity provider, and service account.
- 3
Run the script and copy the resulting Workload Identity Federation (WIF) audience and service account email.
Lovable requires these two identifiers to establish a secure, keyless connection to Google Cloud.
- 4
Enable the specific Google Cloud APIs your app needs, such as Cloud Asset Inventory, Cloud Logging, or Cloud Monitoring, in Google Cloud Console.
Google Cloud blocks requests with a 403 error if an API is disabled, even if your service account has permission.
- 5
In Lovable, open the Google Cloud API connector settings and enter the WIF audience and service account email.
This completes the connection so your Lovable workspace and project chats can interact with Google Cloud.
Paste this into your project
Use Google Cloud API and build a page that lists all the Google Cloud projects in our organization with their IDs, states, and labels in a searchable table.
Words decoded
- Workload Identity Federation
- A secure method that lets an outside system access Google Cloud resources without creating or storing permanent secret keys.
- Service Account
- A Google account created for an application or tool to use rather than a human user.
- IAM (Identity and Access Management)
- The security system Google Cloud uses to control who has permission to view or modify each resource.
- OIDC Provider
- An authentication bridge that verifies Lovable's identity before issuing short-lived access tokens.
Where people get stuck
- This connector does not host or deploy your Lovable app on Google Cloud; it only communicates with Google Cloud services.
- Requests will fail with a 403 error until the specific APIs your app calls are explicitly enabled in the Google Cloud Console.
- Granting overly broad permissions like Owner or Editor to your service account risks accidental resource modification or deletion; use read-only Viewer roles when possible.
- If doing manual setup, leaving the attribute condition blank allows any Google user to request access instead of restricting access to Lovable.
- API calls that create resources incur costs billed directly to your Google Cloud account; configure budget alerts before building.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.