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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Google Cloud Foundation

You're reading from   The Ultimate Guide to Building a Google Cloud Foundation A one-on-one tutorial with one of Google's top trainers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240855
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Patrick Haggerty Patrick Haggerty
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting to Know Google’s Cloud 2. Chapter 2: IAM, Users, Groups, and Admin Access FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Setting Up Billing and Cost Controls 4. Chapter 4: Terraforming a Resource Hierarchy 5. Chapter 5: Controlling Access with IAM Roles 6. Chapter 6: Laying the Network 7. Chapter 7: Foundational Monitoring and Logging 8. Chapter 8: Augmenting Security and Registering for Support 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Organizing Google Cloud logically and physically

Everything in Google Cloud has both a logical and a physical organization to it. A virtual machine, for example, could logically belong to a department and physically run in London, and decisions need to be made around both these organizational forms. Let’s start with the logical aspect.

Definition time! The core elements of Google Cloud’s logical organization are as follows:

  • Resource: In that NIST definition they stated, “a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services)” so likely, if it’s part of Google Cloud and costs money, then it’s a resource.
  • Project: A logical collection of resources with an owner and with a billing account (paying for all the resources in this project) attached.
  • Folder: A logical collection of projects and/or other folders that’s used to create groupings to form logical or trust...
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