Generate GCP Credentials

Purpose

This document describes how to create Google Cloud Platform (GCP) credentials.

Introduction

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)  is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally. Alongside a set of management tools, it provides infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and serverless computing environments.

Configure a GCP Account

1. In the drop-down menu select Google Cloud Platform.
   
   

   

2. Add the name of your GCP account.
3. Click the blue UPLOAD ACCESS KEY (JSON) button to select your access key file.
4. Click blue ADD button to create the credential.

To manage your account, refer to Scan Credentials.

Create a GCP Account and Keys - Google Cloud Console

Refer to Create and Manage service accounts, to manage IAM service accounts.  

Steps to Create a Service Account

1. Log in to Google Cloud Platform.
   
   

   

2. Open the Service Accounts page. 
   
   

   

3. Click on + CREATE SERVICE ACCOUNT. 
   
   

   

4. Fill in the details and click CREATE.

5. Add service account permissions and roles to allow a user to manage service account.

   

   Note

   The Service account created on GCP must have a Role set to Project Viewer without anything else.

    

   
   

   

Steps to enable GCP API

1. Enter the APIs & Services Dashboard page.
   
   

   

   
   
   
2. Click on  + ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES on the top of the dashboard.
   
   

   

   
   
   
3. Search for the required API,  Compute Engine API in this example.
   
   

   

   
   
   
4. Click on the API block and then enable it by clicking on the ENABLE button.
   
   

   

You need to enable the following GCP API in order to be able to run GCP Compliance policy such as "CIS Google Cloud Platform Foundation Benchmark".

• Compute Engine API
• Kubernetes Engine API
• Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
• Cloud Logging API
• Cloud Resource Manager API
• Cloud DNS API
• Cloud Functions API
• Cloud SQL Admin API

You can double check GCP enabled APIs at the bottom of the "APIs & Services" Dashboard.

Steps to Create Key

1. After granting user access, click on Create Key.
   
    

   

   
   
   

2. Select JSON as the Key type/format and click on CREATE.

Note

Refer to Creating and Managing Service Account Keys, for detailed information regarding how to generate Access keys. The uploaded access key is the credential used to run a GCP scan.

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