Chapter 5: Controlling Access with IAM Roles
Do you remember in the last chapter when you got to figure out where you and all your fellow employees would sit in the new office building? Remember how we decided that a good way to attack the problem would be to examine how employees should be grouped both from a logical team sort of perspective and with an eye on security needs? Well, just like when building our resource hierarchy, Google Cloud is going to require the same type of thinking when we start to lay in our access control.
Google believes that the way you get security right is by thinking in cybersecurity terms from the ground up, and from day zero forward. As a result, Google Cloud has created an industry-leading, zero-trust architecture with a proven track record of security and reliability. Let’s do it.
In this chapter, we’re going to start with an introduction to Identity and Access Management (IAM), and then continue to use Terraform to ensure security...
