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02 Resources and
Access in the Cloud
Now that you've had a chance to explore what cloud computing is, the pricing
structure and billing practices available with Google Cloud, and the ways that Google
strives to make the platform secure and environmentally friendly, let’s now work to
understand the functional structure of Google Cloud.
, Proprietary + Confidential
Resources and Access in the Cloud
01 Google Cloud resource hierarchy
02 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
03 IAM roles
04 Service accounts
05 Cloud Identity
06 Interacting with Google Cloud
In this section of the course, we’ll see how resources get organized with projects, and
how access to those resources gets shared with the right part of a workforce through
a tool called Identity and Access Management, or IAM.
We’ll also look into the different ways in which you can interact with Google Cloud,
including our web user interface, command-line interface, and our mobile apps.
, Proprietary + Confidential
Resources and Access in the Cloud
01 Google Cloud resource hierarchy
02 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
03 IAM roles
04 Service accounts
05 Cloud Identity
06 Interacting with Google Cloud
We’ll begin with the Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy.
, Proprietary + Confidential
Resources are hierarchical
Folders
Organization
node
Projects
Resources
This hierarchy is made up of four levels, and starting from the bottom up they are:
resources, projects, folders, and an organization node.
At the first level are resources. These represent virtual machines, Cloud Storage
buckets, Virtual Private Networks (VPCs), tables in BigQuery, or anything else in
Google Cloud.
Resources get organized into projects, which sit on the second level.
Projects can be organized into folders, or even subfolders. These sit at the third level.
And then at the top level is an organization node, which encompasses all the projects,
folders, and resources in your organization.
02 Resources and
Access in the Cloud
Now that you've had a chance to explore what cloud computing is, the pricing
structure and billing practices available with Google Cloud, and the ways that Google
strives to make the platform secure and environmentally friendly, let’s now work to
understand the functional structure of Google Cloud.
, Proprietary + Confidential
Resources and Access in the Cloud
01 Google Cloud resource hierarchy
02 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
03 IAM roles
04 Service accounts
05 Cloud Identity
06 Interacting with Google Cloud
In this section of the course, we’ll see how resources get organized with projects, and
how access to those resources gets shared with the right part of a workforce through
a tool called Identity and Access Management, or IAM.
We’ll also look into the different ways in which you can interact with Google Cloud,
including our web user interface, command-line interface, and our mobile apps.
, Proprietary + Confidential
Resources and Access in the Cloud
01 Google Cloud resource hierarchy
02 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
03 IAM roles
04 Service accounts
05 Cloud Identity
06 Interacting with Google Cloud
We’ll begin with the Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy.
, Proprietary + Confidential
Resources are hierarchical
Folders
Organization
node
Projects
Resources
This hierarchy is made up of four levels, and starting from the bottom up they are:
resources, projects, folders, and an organization node.
At the first level are resources. These represent virtual machines, Cloud Storage
buckets, Virtual Private Networks (VPCs), tables in BigQuery, or anything else in
Google Cloud.
Resources get organized into projects, which sit on the second level.
Projects can be organized into folders, or even subfolders. These sit at the third level.
And then at the top level is an organization node, which encompasses all the projects,
folders, and resources in your organization.
