Access and resource management

Documentation and resources for organizing, analyzing, and managing access to your Google Cloud resources and services.

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Identity management for Google Cloud

Explore the methods you can use to configure identities for users and workloads on Google Cloud

IAM overview

Learn about Google Cloud's Identity and Access Management system, which lets you control who can access your Google Cloud resources.

Resource hierarchy

Learn about the resource hierarchy in Google Cloud and how you can use that hierarchy to organize your resources.

Google Cloud setup checklist

Configure an initial foundation to support your Google Cloud workloads, including setting up your resource hierarchy and granting initial access.

Overview of planning identity and access management

Plan your general practice of IAM.

Patterns and practices for identity and access governance

Plan how to develop your approach for identity governance and access management for applications and workloads running on Google Cloud.

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Cloud engineer learning path

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Create and manage cloud resources

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Define who can access resources in your organization.

Identify excess permissions using policy insights.
Simplify, automate, and customize the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities (CA).
Establish fine-grained identity and access management for Google Cloud resources.
Control resources and manage access through policies to proactively improve your security configuration.
Allow organization administrators to define fine-grained, attribute-based access control for projects and resources in Google Cloud.
Plan your design for granting the right individuals access to the right resources for the right reasons.
Study fundamental features of cloud security related to access management and identity.
Manage user identities, devices, and applications from one console.

Manage internal enterprise solutions and Google Cloud APIs.

Control internal enterprise solutions and make them easily discoverable.
List, enable, and disable APIs and services in your Google Cloud projects, and apply quota restrictions to services.

Optimize your service usage, monitor application and resource health, and identify disruptive events.

Gain visibility into disruptive events impacting Google Cloud products.
View centralized operations data and insights about the health of your Google Cloud applications and resources so that you can take action on issues, patterns, and trends.
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Manage Google Cloud resources programmatically.
Use inventory services based on a time series database.
Manage your Google Cloud resources using a command-line interface from any browser.
Manage Google Cloud resources, such as Spanner or Cloud Storage, through the Google Kubernetes Engine API.
Centralized and programmatic control over your organization's cloud resources.
Control resources and manage access through policies to proactively improve your security configuration.
View and manage your Google Cloud resources, grant Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles at the organization level, and manage organization resource billing accounts using the Google Cloud console.
Explore methods to authenticate your applications to access Google APIs and services.
Monitor for credential compromise and take action to keep your data secure and protected from attackers.
Review the secure process that occurs when you delete your customer data stored in Google Cloud.