Resource Structure and Inheritance
Explore the hierarchical structure of Google Cloud resources including organizations, folders, projects, and services. Understand IAM roles and how permissions are inherited, enabling effective access management across projects and resources. This lesson prepares you to manage GCP resource access strategically.
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Congrats!! Now, you should have a Google Cloud Platform account with a $300 credit for three months. These credits are more than enough to learn all the services in GCP. (If used sparingly.) In this lesson, we will look at the structure in which GCP projects are organized.
This course will cover all the topics given in this exam guide by Google Cloud.
Resource hierarchy
Google Cloud Platform is designed considering a single organization per GCP account. You can also use GCP without an organization if you are an individual or don’t have a custom domain name email.
Let’s discuss each layer of the hierarchy in detail.
Organization
Each GCP account can have only one organization node, and the organization is automatically created when you sign in using a custom domain name email that does not end in “@gmail.com”. For example, in the below image, the organization named dockertutorials.in is created automatically.
Sign in using an organization email ID because you can manage which users from your organization are given access to the Google Cloud console and ...