June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 44m
English
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Identity and Access Management
We have seen a lot of GCP's resource offerings in previous chapters, but all of them would crumble if their access is not managed properly. IAM, which stands for Identity and Access Management, lets you control access to all of the GCP resources in terms of roles and permissions. All of the services related to IAM are completely free of charge, so we do not need to bother about billing in this chapter. Let's take a look into how IAM lets you manage resource access.
You will learn about the following:
- IAM
- Roles and permissions
- Types of identities
- Working with IAM
If you can keep this one diagram in mind, you're ...