A service account is a special type of STACKIT account that represents a non-human user. With a Service Account you can automate business processes. It can be used by an application or VM instance, not by a person. Using service accounts is a crucial step for client applications to make automated API calls to the STACKIT API. In the following steps, we will show how you can create a Service Account and assign it to a project via the STACKIT portal, API call, STACKIT CLI and STACKIT SDK. Subsequently, you will learn how to use a service account with examples.

STACKIT will deprecate the service account access token feature effective December 17, 2025. Please read the migration guide in the tutorials section for more information and how to migrate.


A service account cannot be used in the STACKIT Portal. STACKIT Portal only supports you in managing Service Accounts.
This Service Account implementation is for API access only. Service Accounts only work for endpoints located behind the identity-aware proxy/API gateway.