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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

IAM and service accounts


As with all other products and services in the Google Cloud catalog, IAM is a major component of Google's security model. For Compute Engine, this manifests in two primary manners—IAM policies for administrative operations on Compute Engine resources and IAM policies for actions that a given Compute Engine instance may take.

Administrative operations

Compute Engine IAM roles can be grouped into three broad categories—instance resource management, network management, and security management. Compared to other services in the GCP catalog, there are very many IAM roles, designed to fit a large number of potential human roles within an organization. Some of these roles are currently in beta.

General roles

As we've seen in previous chapters, primitive roles may be used to grant general permissions at the project or organization level. These primitive roles apply to Compute Engine resources in the same manner as other resources. Project and organization owners and editors...

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