Learning about identity services
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is one of the most important aspects of any cloud. It allows you to control who has access to the cloud but can also provide identity services to your applications. In short, this is achieved by a combination of roles and permissions. The roles are assigned to either users or groups. Let's have a look at the options we have in GCP:
- IAM: IAM allows the GCP admin to control authorization to GCP services. Administrators can create roles with granular permissions. Roles can then be assigned to users, or preferably, a group of users.
- Cloud Identity: Cloud Identity is an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) offering. It sits outside of GCP but can be easily integrated with GCP. It allows you to create organizations, groups, and users, and manage them centrally. If you already have an existing user catalog, you can synchronize it with Cloud Identity.
IAM is very important to understand because it underpins...
