diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/gcp_utils.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/gcp_utils.py
index 65cd877781..d5a5b184a3 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/gcp_utils.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/gcp_utils.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 import ast
 import os
+import json
 
 
 def navigate_hash(source, path, default=None):
@@ -143,7 +144,8 @@ class GcpSession(object):
                 msg="Service Account Email only works with Machine Account-based authentication"
             )
 
-        if self.module.params.get('service_account_file') is not None and self.module.params['auth_kind'] != 'serviceaccount':
+        if (self.module.params.get('service_account_file') is not None or
+                self.module.params.get('service_account_contents') is not None) and self.module.params['auth_kind'] != 'serviceaccount':
             self.module.fail_json(
                 msg="Service Account File only works with Service Account-based authentication"
             )
@@ -153,9 +155,12 @@ class GcpSession(object):
         if cred_type == 'application':
             credentials, project_id = google.auth.default(scopes=self.module.params['scopes'])
             return credentials
-        elif cred_type == 'serviceaccount':
+        elif cred_type == 'serviceaccount' and self.module.params.get('service_account_file'):
             path = os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(self.module.params['service_account_file']))
             return service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(path).with_scopes(self.module.params['scopes'])
+        elif cred_type == 'serviceaccount' and self.module.params.get('service_account_contents'):
+            cred = json.loads(self.module.params.get('service_account_contents'))
+            return service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_info(cred).with_scopes(self.module.params['scopes'])
         elif cred_type == 'machineaccount':
             return google.auth.compute_engine.Credentials(
                 self.module.params['service_account_email'])
@@ -199,6 +204,10 @@ class GcpModule(AnsibleModule):
                     required=False,
                     fallback=(env_fallback, ['GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE']),
                     type='path'),
+                service_account_contents=dict(
+                    required=False,
+                    fallback=(env_fallback, ['GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CONTENTS']),
+                    type='str'),
                 scopes=dict(
                     required=False,
                     fallback=(env_fallback, ['GCP_SCOPES']),
@@ -211,7 +220,7 @@ class GcpModule(AnsibleModule):
             mutual = kwargs['mutually_exclusive']
 
         kwargs['mutually_exclusive'] = mutual.append(
-            ['service_account_email', 'service_account_file']
+            ['service_account_email', 'service_account_file', 'service_account_contents']
         )
 
         AnsibleModule.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/google/gcp_iam_role.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/google/gcp_iam_role.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9e8a859ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/google/gcp_iam_role.py
@@ -0,0 +1,316 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Google
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+#     ***     AUTO GENERATED CODE    ***    AUTO GENERATED CODE     ***
+#
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+#     This file is automatically generated by Magic Modules and manual
+#     changes will be clobbered when the file is regenerated.
+#
+#     Please read more about how to change this file at
+#     https://www.github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
+#
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+################################################################################
+# Documentation
+################################################################################
+
+ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'metadata_version': '1.1', 'status': ["preview"], 'supported_by': 'community'}
+
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+---
+module: gcp_iam_role
+description:
+- A role in the Identity and Access Management API .
+short_description: Creates a GCP Role
+version_added: 2.8
+author: Google Inc. (@googlecloudplatform)
+requirements:
+- python >= 2.6
+- requests >= 2.18.4
+- google-auth >= 1.3.0
+options:
+  state:
+    description:
+    - Whether the given object should exist in GCP
+    choices:
+    - present
+    - absent
+    default: present
+  name:
+    description:
+    - The name of the role.
+    required: true
+  title:
+    description:
+    - A human-readable title for the role. Typically this is limited to 100 UTF-8
+      bytes.
+    required: false
+  description:
+    description:
+    - Human-readable description for the role.
+    required: false
+  included_permissions:
+    description:
+    - Names of permissions this role grants when bound in an IAM policy.
+    required: false
+  stage:
+    description:
+    - The current launch stage of the role.
+    required: false
+    choices:
+    - ALPHA
+    - BETA
+    - GA
+    - DEPRECATED
+    - DISABLED
+    - EAP
+extends_documentation_fragment: gcp
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: create a role
+  gcp_iam_role:
+    name: myCustomRole2
+    title: My Custom Role
+    description: My custom role description
+    included_permissions:
+    - iam.roles.list
+    - iam.roles.create
+    - iam.roles.delete
+    project: test_project
+    auth_kind: serviceaccount
+    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
+    state: present
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+name:
+  description:
+  - The name of the role.
+  returned: success
+  type: str
+title:
+  description:
+  - A human-readable title for the role. Typically this is limited to 100 UTF-8 bytes.
+  returned: success
+  type: str
+description:
+  description:
+  - Human-readable description for the role.
+  returned: success
+  type: str
+includedPermissions:
+  description:
+  - Names of permissions this role grants when bound in an IAM policy.
+  returned: success
+  type: list
+stage:
+  description:
+  - The current launch stage of the role.
+  returned: success
+  type: str
+deleted:
+  description:
+  - The current deleted state of the role.
+  returned: success
+  type: bool
+'''
+
+################################################################################
+# Imports
+################################################################################
+
+from ansible.module_utils.gcp_utils import navigate_hash, GcpSession, GcpModule, GcpRequest, replace_resource_dict
+import json
+
+################################################################################
+# Main
+################################################################################
+
+
+def main():
+    """Main function"""
+
+    module = GcpModule(
+        argument_spec=dict(
+            state=dict(default='present', choices=['present', 'absent'], type='str'),
+            name=dict(required=True, type='str'),
+            title=dict(type='str'),
+            description=dict(type='str'),
+            included_permissions=dict(type='list', elements='str'),
+            stage=dict(type='str', choices=['ALPHA', 'BETA', 'GA', 'DEPRECATED', 'DISABLED', 'EAP']),
+        )
+    )
+
+    if not module.params['scopes']:
+        module.params['scopes'] = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam']
+
+    state = module.params['state']
+
+    fetch = fetch_resource(module, self_link(module))
+    changed = False
+
+    if fetch:
+        if state == 'present':
+            if is_different(module, fetch):
+                update(module, self_link(module), fetch)
+                fetch = fetch_resource(module, self_link(module))
+                changed = True
+        else:
+            delete(module, self_link(module))
+            fetch = {}
+            changed = True
+    else:
+        if state == 'present':
+            fetch = create(module, collection(module))
+            changed = True
+        else:
+            fetch = {}
+
+    fetch.update({'changed': changed})
+
+    module.exit_json(**fetch)
+
+
+def create(module, link):
+    auth = GcpSession(module, 'iam')
+    return return_if_object(module, auth.post(link, resource_to_create(module)))
+
+
+def update(module, link, fetch):
+    auth = GcpSession(module, 'iam')
+    params = {'updateMask': updateMask(resource_to_request(module), response_to_hash(module, fetch))}
+    request = resource_to_request(module)
+    del request['name']
+    return return_if_object(module, auth.put(link, request, params=params))
+
+
+def updateMask(request, response):
+    update_mask = []
+    if request.get('name') != response.get('name'):
+        update_mask.append('name')
+    if request.get('title') != response.get('title'):
+        update_mask.append('title')
+    if request.get('description') != response.get('description'):
+        update_mask.append('description')
+    if request.get('includedPermissions') != response.get('includedPermissions'):
+        update_mask.append('includedPermissions')
+    if request.get('stage') != response.get('stage'):
+        update_mask.append('stage')
+    return ','.join(update_mask)
+
+
+def delete(module, link):
+    auth = GcpSession(module, 'iam')
+    return return_if_object(module, auth.delete(link))
+
+
+def resource_to_request(module):
+    request = {
+        u'name': module.params.get('name'),
+        u'title': module.params.get('title'),
+        u'description': module.params.get('description'),
+        u'includedPermissions': module.params.get('included_permissions'),
+        u'stage': module.params.get('stage'),
+    }
+    return_vals = {}
+    for k, v in request.items():
+        if v or v is False:
+            return_vals[k] = v
+
+    return return_vals
+
+
+def fetch_resource(module, link, allow_not_found=True):
+    auth = GcpSession(module, 'iam')
+    return return_if_object(module, auth.get(link), allow_not_found)
+
+
+def self_link(module):
+    return "https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/roles/{name}".format(**module.params)
+
+
+def collection(module):
+    return "https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/roles".format(**module.params)
+
+
+def return_if_object(module, response, allow_not_found=False):
+    # If not found, return nothing.
+    if allow_not_found and response.status_code == 404:
+        return None
+
+    # If no content, return nothing.
+    if response.status_code == 204:
+        return None
+
+    try:
+        module.raise_for_status(response)
+        result = response.json()
+    except getattr(json.decoder, 'JSONDecodeError', ValueError):
+        module.fail_json(msg="Invalid JSON response with error: %s" % response.text)
+
+    result = decode_response(result, module)
+
+    if navigate_hash(result, ['error', 'errors']):
+        module.fail_json(msg=navigate_hash(result, ['error', 'errors']))
+
+    return result
+
+
+def is_different(module, response):
+    request = resource_to_request(module)
+    response = response_to_hash(module, response)
+    request = decode_response(request, module)
+
+    # Remove all output-only from response.
+    response_vals = {}
+    for k, v in response.items():
+        if k in request:
+            response_vals[k] = v
+
+    request_vals = {}
+    for k, v in request.items():
+        if k in response:
+            request_vals[k] = v
+
+    return GcpRequest(request_vals) != GcpRequest(response_vals)
+
+
+# Remove unnecessary properties from the response.
+# This is for doing comparisons with Ansible's current parameters.
+def response_to_hash(module, response):
+    return {
+        u'name': response.get(u'name'),
+        u'title': response.get(u'title'),
+        u'description': response.get(u'description'),
+        u'includedPermissions': response.get(u'includedPermissions'),
+        u'stage': response.get(u'stage'),
+        u'deleted': response.get(u'deleted'),
+    }
+
+
+def resource_to_create(module):
+    role = resource_to_request(module)
+    del role['name']
+    return {'roleId': module.params['name'], 'role': role}
+
+
+def decode_response(response, module):
+    if 'name' in response:
+        response['name'] = response['name'].split('/')[-1]
+    return response
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/doc_fragments/gcp.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/doc_fragments/gcp.py
index ecbf467eb2..110d279595 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/doc_fragments/gcp.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/doc_fragments/gcp.py
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ options:
         type: str
         required: true
         choices: [ application, machineaccount, serviceaccount ]
+    service_account_contents:
+        description:
+            - A string representing the contents of a Service Account JSON file.
+            - This should not be passed in as a dictionary, but a string
+              that has the exact contents of a service account json file (valid JSON)
+        type: str
     service_account_file:
         description:
             - The path of a Service Account JSON file if serviceaccount is selected as type.
@@ -36,6 +42,8 @@ notes:
     C(GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE) env variable.
   - For authentication, you can set service_account_email using the
     C(GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL) env variable.
+  - For authentication, you can set service_account_contents using the
+    C(GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CONTENTS) env variable.
   - For authentication, you can set auth_kind using the C(GCP_AUTH_KIND) env
     variable.
   - For authentication, you can set scopes using the C(GCP_SCOPES) env variable.
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/aliases b/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/aliases
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9812f019ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/aliases
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+cloud/gcp
+unsupported
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/defaults/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/defaults/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aa87a2a8e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/defaults/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+# defaults file
+resource_name: '{{resource_prefix}}'
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/meta/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/meta/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6299f760ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/targets/gcp_iam_role/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+---
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+#     ***     AUTO GENERATED CODE    ***    AUTO GENERATED CODE     ***
+#
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+#     This file is automatically generated by Magic Modules and manual
+#     changes will be clobbered when the file is regenerated.
+#
+#     Please read more about how to change this file at
+#     https://www.github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
+#
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Pre-test setup
+- name: delete a role
+  gcp_iam_role:
+    name: myCustomRole2
+    title: My Custom Role
+    description: My custom role description
+    included_permissions:
+    - iam.roles.list
+    - iam.roles.create
+    - iam.roles.delete
+    project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
+    auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
+    service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
+    state: absent
+#----------------------------------------------------------
+- name: create a role
+  gcp_iam_role:
+    name: myCustomRole2
+    title: My Custom Role
+    description: My custom role description
+    included_permissions:
+    - iam.roles.list
+    - iam.roles.create
+    - iam.roles.delete
+    project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
+    auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
+    service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
+    state: present
+  register: result
+- name: assert changed is true
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - result.changed == true
+- name: verify that role was created
+  gcp_iam_role_facts:
+      project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
+      auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
+      service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
+      scopes:
+        - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam
+  register: results
+- name: verify that command succeeded
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - results['items'] | length >= 1
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+- name: create a role that already exists
+  gcp_iam_role:
+    name: myCustomRole2
+    title: My Custom Role
+    description: My custom role description
+    included_permissions:
+    - iam.roles.list
+    - iam.roles.create
+    - iam.roles.delete
+    project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
+    auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
+    service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
+    state: present
+  register: result
+- name: assert changed is false
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - result.changed == false
+#----------------------------------------------------------
+- name: delete a role
+  gcp_iam_role:
+    name: myCustomRole2
+    title: My Custom Role
+    description: My custom role description
+    included_permissions:
+    - iam.roles.list
+    - iam.roles.create
+    - iam.roles.delete
+    project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
+    auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
+    service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
+    state: absent
+  register: result
+- name: assert changed is true
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - result.changed == true
+- name: verify that role was deleted
+  gcp_iam_role_facts:
+      project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
+      auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
+      service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
+      scopes:
+        - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam
+  register: results
+- name: verify that command succeeded
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - results['items'] | length == 0
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+- name: delete a role that does not exist
+  gcp_iam_role:
+    name: myCustomRole2
+    title: My Custom Role
+    description: My custom role description
+    included_permissions:
+    - iam.roles.list
+    - iam.roles.create
+    - iam.roles.delete
+    project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
+    auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
+    service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
+    state: absent
+  register: result
+- name: assert changed is false
+  assert:
+    that:
+      - result.changed == false