Understanding resource hierarchy

The key components that make up the resource hierarchy are as follows:

• Organization: The top-level component—all other components are linked to this.
• Folders: Used to group similar projects to consistently apply policies. These are optional but highly recommended.
• Projects: Where all the resources, such as your compute instances, databases, and others, exist.

Now, let’s look at each of these components in detail. From a certification standpoint, you will be tested on resource hierarchy and the topics covered in this chapter. It’s important to understand how to manage and create resources and apply access policies and organizational constraints. We will cover all these topics in this chapter.

Organization

This is the root node and hierarchical super-node of the project. It is closely associated with the Workspace / Cloud Identity account. It’s a single directory containing the organization’...