What IAM role should you grant to team members for exporting logs?

The IAM role of logging.configWriter is specifically designed to allow users to manage configurations related to logging in Google Cloud, including the ability to export logs. By granting this role to team members, they receive the necessary permissions to configure and perform operations associated with log exports, which includes writing logs, exporting them to a storage solution, and possibly even managing log sinks.

This role provides a balance between functionality and security, ensuring that team members can fulfill their responsibilities related to log handling without having excessive permissions that might endanger other resources in the cloud environment.

The other options do not directly address the requirements for exporting logs. While creating a custom IAM role might seem flexible, it involves more complexity and overhead in managing permissions, and users may inadvertently miss essential permissions. Configuring Access Context Manager focuses on securing access at a higher level but does not grant the required permissions itself. Similarly, creating an Organizational Policy may restrict or regulate resource usage but does not provide the necessary permissions for log export tasks. Thus, assigning the logging.configWriter role is the most straightforward and effective approach for enabling log export functionality.