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Resource Management
In this chapter, we will look at resource management and understand some of the key components, such as projects, folders, and organizations. When building your environment on Google Cloud, these components can help you do segmentation at a macro level. We will also look at organizational policy constraints, some of the pre-built constraints that are available, and how the inheritance of policy works for Identity and Access Management (IAM) and firewall rules. We will also cover Cloud Asset Inventory, which is an essential part of resource management, and its role from a security perspective. We will end the chapter with some best practices and design considerations for resource management.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Overview of Google Cloud Resource Manager
- The resource hierarchy
- The Organization Policy Service
- Organization Policy constraints
- Policy inheritance
- Hierarchical firewall policies
- Cloud...
