For hosted/deployed code within CloudRun, this isn't necessary at the moment. However, for running code locally, it may be required in the future. https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2 https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/reference#authentication https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-nodejs https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-google-oauth2 https://github.com/guruahn/vue-google-oauth2 https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/end-user https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-bigquery/blob/main/samples/auth-user-sample/authUserFlow.js https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/nodejs