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Google Cloud Platform Administration

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform Administration Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on GCP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624350
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ranjit Singh Thakurratan Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Google Cloud Platform Compute 3. Google Cloud Platform Storage 4. Google Cloud Platform Networking 5. Google Cloud Platform Containers 6. Google Cloud Platform Operations 7. Google Cloud Platform Identity and Security 8. Google Cloud Platform Billing 9. Google Cloud Platform Tools 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Identity and access management

IAM allows you to define users and roles and help control user access to GCP resources. GCP offers Cloud IAM, which allows you to grant granular access to users for specific GCP resources based on the least privilege security principle.

Cloud IAM is made up of members to whom access is granted. The following diagram shows the different kinds of member types and also roles, which are collections of permissions. When a member is authenticated and makes a request, Cloud IAM uses roles to assess whether that member is allowed to perform an operation on a resource:

Let's briefly talk about different types of member accounts:

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