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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

You're reading from   Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions Develop scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language

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Product type Course
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647438
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Why GCP? FREE CHAPTER 2. The Google Cloud Console 3. APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing 4. Google App Engine 5. Google Kubernetes Engine 6. Google Cloud Functions 7. Google Compute Engine 8. NoSQL with Datastore and Bigtable 9. Relational Data with Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner 10. Google Cloud Storage 11. Stackdriver 12. Change Management 13. GCP Networking for Developers 14. Messaging with Pub/Sub and IoT Core 15. Integrating with Big Data Solutions on GCP 16. Compute 17. Storage and Databases 18. Networking 19. Security 20. Machine Learning and Big Data 21. Management Tools 22. Best Practices 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Data governance in Cloud Storage


An important component of successfully managing data on any public cloud is data governance. The tools and mechanisms available for access control on a given storage solution largely determine what can be realistically achieved while maintaining security at scale. GCS offers three primary mechanisms for access control; Google Cloud IAM, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and signed URLs. Each of these mechanisms addresses the core issue of access control, but they go about it in different ways, with somewhat different goals.

It's important to understand how each one works, and how they overlap. By using these tools in conjunction with each other, developers can implement very flexible access control patterns. On the other hand, a lack of understanding of how these tools interact can lead to access policies that are unintentionally overly-permissive.

Cloud Storage IAM

As with every product and service in the GCP catalog, Cloud Storage has built-in support for Google...

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