kosli create service-account

Synopsis

kosli create service-account SERVICE-ACCOUNT-NAME [flags]

Create a service account. A service account is a non-human identity in your organization. API keys are created separately for it with kosli create api-key.

Flags

Flag	Description
`-d`, `--description` string	[optional] A description for the service account.
`-D`, `--dry-run`	[optional] Run in dry-run mode. When enabled, no data is sent to Kosli and the CLI exits with 0 exit code regardless of any errors.
`-h`, `--help`	help for service-account
`--privilege` string	The privilege granted to the service account. One of: [admin, member, snapshotter, reader].

Flags inherited from parent commands

Flag	Description
`-a`, `--api-token` string	The Kosli API token.
`-c`, `--config-file` string	[optional] The Kosli config file path. (default “kosli”)
`--debug`	[optional] Print debug logs to stdout.
`-H`, `--host` string	[defaulted] The Kosli endpoint. (default “https://app.kosli.com”)
`--http-proxy` string	[optional] The HTTP proxy URL including protocol and port number. e.g. `http://proxy-server-ip:proxy-port`
`-r`, `--max-api-retries` int	[defaulted] How many times should API calls be retried when the API host is not reachable. (default 3)
`--org` string	The Kosli organization.
`-q`, `--quiet`	[optional] Suppress non-critical warning messages. Errors and normal output are not affected. If both `--quiet` and `--debug` are set, `--debug` wins.

Examples Use Cases

These examples all assume that the flags --api-token, --org, --host, (and --flow, --trail when required), are set/provided.

create a service account

kosli create service-account yourServiceAccountName 
	--privilege member 
	--description "CI service account" 

Last modified on June 29, 2026

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General

Top-level commands

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kosli assert

kosli attest

kosli begin

kosli create

kosli delete

kosli diff

kosli disable / enable

kosli evaluate

kosli get

kosli join

kosli list

kosli log

kosli rename

kosli report

kosli request

kosli rotate

kosli snapshot

kosli unarchive

kosli update

Synopsis

Flags

Flags inherited from parent commands

Examples Use Cases

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Flags

Flags inherited from parent commands

Examples Use Cases