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Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Cloudaware ingests configuration, inventory, and selected telemetry from Google Cloud projects, folders, and organizations via Google Cloud APIs using a dedicated service account.

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  • Audience: Cloudaware administrators, cloud engineers, security teams, and FinOps users
  • Outcome: Google Cloud organizations, folders, and projects are connected to Cloudaware for inventory, configuration, telemetry, and optional billing and GKE data collection

Use this section to prepare GCP, grant least‑privilege access, connect service accounts and resource hierarchies, validate ingestion, and configure billing and GKE discovery.

What the GCP Integration Provides​

  • Unified CMDB objects for GCP organizations, folders, projects, compute, networking, storage, databases, Kubernetes (GKE), and other services.
  • Flexible assignment of service accounts to organizations, folders, or projects to control which resources Cloudaware collects.
  • Optional deep visibility into billing accounts, Security Command Center (SCC), backups, and tagging when additional permissions are granted.
  • Cross‑cloud reporting and policies that correlate GCP data with other providers.

Integration Workflow​

Work through the guides in this section in the following order:

  1. Prerequisites — What you need in Cloudaware and GCP before starting.
  2. Least-Privilege Policies — Recommended IAM roles and custom roles for read‑only discovery and optional features.
  3. Setup — Step‑by‑step configuration of a service account, API enablement, and Cloudaware onboarding.
  4. Verification — How to confirm that data is flowing and projects are healthy.
  5. Troubleshooting — Common issues, diagnostics, and resolution steps.

See also:

  • Service Coverage — Summary of Google services and object families discovered by Cloudaware.
  • Resource Coverage — Details about Google resources discovered by Cloudaware.

Follow-up Integrations​

  • Google Billing — Cost and usage data ingestion for Google Cost Management. Configure the Google Cloud integration first, then add Google Billing if you need cost analytics and reporting.
  • GKE Cluster Access — Kubernetes access configuration for discovering GKE objects.

For CMDB schema details and example queries, see the GCP section in Provider Quick Reference.