Creating the modernization project
Before we start building out our architecture in Google Cloud we need to set up the structure for our account. At the root of the structure, we have the organization we created when we set up Cloud Identity for Identity and Access Management (IAM). An account can have only one organization. The organization can contain folders and/or projects. A folder can contain folders or projects. This provides us with a tree structure for organizing our resources, called the resource hierarchy.
The purpose of our resource hierarchy is to do the following:
- Provide an ownership hierarchy, often reflecting the structure of the enterprise and cost centers.
- Provide a structure for inheriting access control and policies.
For our organization, we will keep things simple and create a folder called modernization and within that folder a project called BankingApplication. Our resource hierarchy will then look like this:
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