Accessing Public Google APIs (e.g. maps) through a Private IP
Private Service Connect (PSC) lets a workload with only a private IP in your VPC access supported Google APIs through an internal endpoint IP—including Google Maps APIs. Google…
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Category: APIs on GCP
Integrating Two GCP Organizations (GCP Cloud based)
Integrating Two Companies Across GCP: Controlled Integration Boundary Integrating Two Companies Across Separate GCP Environments: Building a Controlled Integration Boundary When two companies need to integrate applications and…
Securing Access to GCP APIs
Consuming GCP APIs and Securing Access Consuming GCP APIs from a Client When building applications that consume Google Cloud Platform (GCP) APIs, developers must choose an authentication and…
OAuth Tokens from GCP Service Accounts?
Delegated API Access You can use your Service accounts to call public Google APIs. This is called Delegated API Access. How does it work? Essentially, your service account…
HL7 Messages and DataFlow Streaming Healthcare API
Just a quick note – from the field. There’s two things to watch out for – Is the payload TEXT (JSON is also TEXT) or BINARY (preferred). The…
Restricting what your API Key can call in GCP (and otherwise)
Consuming GCP APIs from a client There’s TWO ways you can consume an API from a client a. API Keys -Least SEcure way – since the KEY is…
Compute Engine Restrict Access – restrict service accounts in GCP
Two relevant roles to assign to IAM user – Compute Instance Admin and Service Account User. roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1, roles/iam.serviceAccountUser Note the prefixes on these two. The instanceAdmin is related to…
GCP Service Accounts – Additional Use Cases
Service accounts are extremely useful in GCP – in calling service APIs – both via custom or default Service Accounts. (Also read Service Accounts in GCP Overview and…
Accessing Google APIs – clarifying Authentication and Authorization for Web and Mobile Apps
Mobile Apps can use either OAuth 2.0 (described below) or Google Sign-in for Android or iOS. Web Apps and Desktop Apps should try and use OAuth 2.0 as described in this…
Certificate Authority as a Service and VPC Service Controls GCP
Google Cloud Private CA and VPC Service Controls Certificate Authority Service and VPC Service Controls in Google Cloud Overview Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service provides a managed private…