Archives for APIs on GCP
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 receives an…
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 Base64 encoding…
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 passwordless -and…
Compute Engine Restrict Access – restrict service accounts in GCP
Two relevant roles to assign to IAM user - Compute Instance Admin and Service Account User. , Note the prefixes on these two. The instanceAdmin is related to the COMPUTE…
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 Custom versus…
Accessing Google APIs – clarifying Authentication and Authorization for Web and Mobile Apps
Mobile Apps can use either OAuth (described below) or Google Sign-in for Android or iOS. Web Apps and Desktop Apps should try and use OAuth as described in this post. Mobile Application Authorization…
Certificate Authority as a Service and VPC Service Controls GCP
Certificate Authority as a Service CAs as a service are part of GCP's offerings now. Certificate Authority as a Service, like all GCP networking services, are tied to a VPC…
API Hosting on GCP using Apigee
Apigee overview - Also read Cloud Load Balancers on GCP Apigee in Evaluation Mode - You can setup Apigee in evaluation before using it in production mode. The UI (GCP…