Concepts

Key concepts

• Overview

  Introduces basic concepts to help you understand IAM.

• Understanding roles

  Describes the predefined roles for IAM, and identifies the permissions in each role.

• Understanding custom roles

  Describes custom roles for IAM, which enable you to provide different sets of permissions than the predefined roles.

• Service accounts

  Explains how your applications can use service accounts to access your resources.

• Understanding policies

  Describes how IAM controls access to a resource by attaching a policy to that resource.

• Conditions

  Explains conditional, attribute-based access control for Google Cloud resources.

• Enforce least privilege with recommendations

  Describes the IAM recommender, which helps you ensure that members have only the permissions that they actually use.

Audit logging

• IAM audit logging

  Details about information that IAM logs when you call its APIs.

• Examples of audit logs for service accounts

  Examples of the audit logs that are generated when you work with a service account.

Best practices

• Using resource hierarchy for access control

  Best practices to consider as you decide how to manage access to your resources.

• Understanding service accounts

  Best practices to take into account when using IAM service accounts.

• Using IAM securely

  Best practices for users who are proficient with IAM.

• IAM roles for billing-related job functions

  IAM roles for users who manage billing tasks.

• IAM roles for networking-related job functions

  IAM roles for users who manage networking tasks.

• IAM roles for auditing-related job functions

  IAM roles for users who manage auditing.