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id: google-cloud-privilegedaccessmanager
version: "0.4.1"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# google-cloud-privilegedaccessmanager — Google Cloud Privilegedaccessmanager API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 179.9K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is the official Python client library for Google Cloud Privileged Access Manager, a service that implements least-privilege access patterns by replacing standing privileges with on-demand, time-bound, approval-based access. The library wraps the PAM API, allowing developers to programmatically create entitlements, request temporary access, manage approvals, and audit access events within their Python applications.

The package is built on Google's standard cloud client infrastructure (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf) and is actively maintained as part of the googleapis/google-cloud-python monorepo. It targets modern Python versions (3.10 through 3.14) and is classified as Beta, meaning the API surface may evolve but the library is production-ready for the PAM service's current feature set.

Use it for:

- Automate emergency access provisioning for incident responders by requesting temporary elevated privileges programmatically
- Build approval workflows that integrate PAM access requests with internal ticketing or ITSM systems
- Manage just-in-time service account access for CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment tasks
- Audit and log all privilege elevation requests and approvals within a compliance-sensitive environment
- Implement self-service access request portals that query eligible entitlements and submit requests on behalf of users

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Python client library for Google Cloud Privileged Access Manager, enabling programmatic control of just-in-time, time-bound, and approval-based access elevations to cloud resources.

Yes. This is the official, actively maintained client for Google Cloud Privileged Access Manager. Install it if you need to integrate PAM into Python applications or automate access request workflows. The low install friction, permissive license, active maintenance, and zero known vulnerabilities make it a safe choice. The Beta status is standard for Google Cloud client libraries and does not indicate instability.

## Install

pip install google-cloud-privilegedaccessmanager
uv add google-cloud-privilegedaccessmanager
poetry add google-cloud-privilegedaccessmanager

## Installing google-cloud-privilegedaccessmanager

Before you install: Low friction installation via pip; active maintenance with recent releases. Requires Python 3.10 or later. Depends on standard Google Cloud libraries (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf), all widely maintained.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; suitable for most projects.

Quickstart:

pip install google-cloud-privilegedaccessmanager

from google.cloud import privilegedaccessmanager_v1

client = privilegedaccessmanager_v1.PrivilegedAccessManagerClient()

Requires Python >= 3.10. Google Cloud project setup and authentication credentials (via google-auth) must be configured before use.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the library supports all Privileged Access Manager API methods or a subset of the service
- Performance characteristics and rate limits for access request operations
- Whether async/await patterns are supported for long-running operations

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 179.9K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

google cloud privileged access manager, just-in-time access control, temporary privilege elevation, least privilege access python, cloud iam access requests, approval-based access management, time-bound resource access, google-cloud, access-control, identity-management

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