Google Cloud Platform Concepts

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Resource Hierarchy

Organization

The organization is the root node of the hierarchy.

Folder

Folders are children of the organization.

Project

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/key-terms#projects

A project consists of a set of users, a set of APIs and billing, authentication and monitoring setting for those API. Projects are children of an organization or a folder. A project has access to data in Cloud Storage.

Project Name

Project name can be changed after creation.

Project ID

Project Number

Project Location

See Location below.

Default Project

The default project ID can be obtained with gcloud as specified below, in the Operations section. The default project is configured as project in .config/gcloud/configurations/config_default.

Project Operations

Resource

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/key-terms#resources

A resource is an entity within Google Cloud. For example, a project, a Google Storage bucket, are resources. Resources for each service are descendants of projects. Access to resources is managed by Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Resource Name

Each resource has a unique name that identifies it.

Service

A service has resources associated with it.

Labels and Tags

GCP Labels and Tags

Location

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations

Location is relevant to a project or other resources, such as a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

Location Types

Region

A specific geographic place, such as São Paulo.

Dual-Region

A pair of regions, such as Tokyo and Osaka. Resources that are deployed in a dual region are geo-redundant.

Multi-Region

A large geographic area, such as the United States, that contains two or more geographic places. Resources that are deployed in a multi region are geo-redundant.

Google Cloud CLI

Google Cloud CLI

Google Cloud Programmatic Access

Google Cloud Programmatic Access

Google Cloud APIs

https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/overview