Understanding the identity and policy arrangement on Google Cloud is a major learning curve for most users. Identity Access Management is a major component and could easily be the focus of its own book. In short, IAM provides a policy on a project to provide the relevant permissions associated with roles.
On Google Cloud, administrative management operations are typically performed using a service account. Working with the Google Cloud catalog, the IAM roles are defined to address the needs of users across a wide variety of scenarios.
