IAM Roles and Permissions
Explore how IAM roles and permissions govern access to Google Cloud resources in this lesson. Understand the differences between primitive, predefined, and custom roles, and learn how to assign permissions correctly to manage security. This knowledge is essential for controlling access and avoiding common permission errors in your projects.
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IAM is an important topic on the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Exam. You should know what role to assign for what tasks. Most of the problems are caused solely by wrong permissions. So, this lesson is crucial for you to learn how to control IAM easily.
As you read in the last lesson, IAM controls who can do what on which resource. So, let’s break this sentence down into IAM components.
- Who: Members
- Can do what: Permissions and Roles
- On which resource: Services
Let’s look at each component in detail.
Permissions
Permissions are the building block ...