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Organizations in GCP versus Organizations in AWS
What are organizations in GCP used for? Organizations in GCP are used to group resources - not to federate identities ( AWS Control Tower). You can connect VPCs in two…
Centralized Logging in GCP – Log Analytics Buckets
Logs - Platform Logs, Application Logs and Networking Logs Platform Logs - are three types of auditable activities: Data Access, Admin Activity, and System Event activity. And thus, there are…
VM Instance Level Metrics in GCP
GCP VM Level Monitoring metrics Active Metric Categories Firewall Metrics - Remember that FW rules are applied at the instance level in GCP. So Ingress Bytes and Egress Bytes are…
Windows Server VMs on GCP Compute Engine
Quick tips for creating and installing a windows server VM on GCP The creation of the instance is straightforward - pick the instance name, the boot disk, any special networking…
Sandbox Environments on Google Cloud
also read - AWS isolated sandbox environments More importantly, how do you control user access to these sandboxes? And what if your sandbox needed applications (say your own inhouse apps)…
Grouping multiple service accounts
What if I need to group multiple service accounts (for example - if I need to attach the same role to all the SAs)? You cannot create an AD group…
Mitigating GCP Service Accounts – Constraints, Default Grants and Limiting Scope
Are there org level constraints around creating custom roles? No. Are there org level constraints around granting Cross Account access to service accounts? Yes. There is a constraint that will…
Sharing GCP resources with users without gSuite accounts
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Creating a publicly accessible VM in GCP
Step 1 - Create a new VM - While Creating the VM Allow HTTP and HTTPs firewall rule (if you plan to host a web app on there) Pick the…
GCP project id versus project name versus project number
Project ID and Project Number Both the project ID and the project number are unique identifiers for a project - globally unique. However, the project-id is meant to be human…