Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Creating a project

Google Cloud projects are tied to user accounts and domains. Any Google account can create and be granted access to GCP projects. For individual use, this can be a standard Google account as used in Gmail. For organizations, this is often done through G Suite and Cloud Identity for domain-level user management backed by organizational identity services such as LDAP and SSO. This provides a rich control plane for administrators to manage user access across projects either individually or as groups. It also enables monitoring and alerting on policy changes, and allows integration with other systems such as third-party change management services.

For the purposes of this book, it is assumed that the reader will be in control ...