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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By: Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

Overview of this book

On-premise data centers are costly to manage. If you need a data center but don’t want to deal with a physical one, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the solution. With GCP, you can build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google Cloud Platform Administration begins with GCP fundamentals, with the help of which you will deploy your first app and gain an understanding of Google Cloud architecture and services. Furthermore, you will learn how to manage Compute, networking, and storage resources. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to track and manage GCP’s usage, monitoring, and billing access control. You will also be able to manage your GCP's access and permissions. In the concluding chapters, you will explore a list of different developer tools for managing and interacting with the GCP platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively deploy workloads on GCP.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Identity and access management

IAM allows you to define users and roles and help control user access to GCP resources. GCP offers Cloud IAM, which allows you to grant granular access to users for specific GCP resources based on the least privilege security principle.

Cloud IAM is made up of members to whom access is granted. The following diagram shows the different kinds of member types and also roles, which are collections of permissions. When a member is authenticated and makes a request, Cloud IAM uses roles to assess whether that member is allowed to perform an operation on a resource:

Let's briefly talk about different types of member accounts: