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Cracking the Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

Creating Projects: Hands On

Explore how to create Google Cloud projects both via the console and the gcloud CLI. Understand key project identifiers including project ID, name, and number. Learn initial steps in managing permissions through IAM roles to control user access within projects.

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Projects

In this lesson, we will create our first project. The project is non-billable. This means you are not charged for creating it. However, there is a default limit on how many projects you can create in an organization. This limit can be increased at any time with a simple request.

The project has three attributes.

  • Project name is an alphanumeric combination (Excluding ‘_’) of characters. This is purely for the user and is like a display name for the project.
  • Project ID is the globally unique ID. Project name and ID can be the same if both are globally unique. If not, Google will auto-generate a globally unique ID for you.
  • Project number is auto-generated by Google for internal purposes. This is out of our control.
Type Uniqueness Owner Mutability
Project ID Globally unique Chosen by you Immutable
Project name Need not be unique Chosen by you
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