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Onboarding Permissions for GCP - Read-Only

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Introduction

As part of the GCP account preparation required before onboarding cloud accounts into the platform, you will need to create least privilege policies— individual policies that must be attached to your cross-account role that allow the platform to access the GCP data it needs in order to create its reports.

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Pre-configured automation templates for allowing access

You can refer to the paths below to access templates provided based on the type of access you wish to provide for the platform after cloning a GitHub repo (https://github.com/corestacklabs/Onboarding_Templates.git):

  • FinOps: Onboarding_Templates/GCP/Assesment-module-proj/finops/
  • SecOps: Onboarding_Templates/GCP/Assesment-module-proj/secops/
  • CloudOps: Onboarding_Templates/GCP/Assesment-module-proj/cloudops/

Least Privilege Polices by Product (Read-Only)

Each least privilege policy provides the necessary permissions to enable core functions in the platform. The policies for enabling Read-Only access to the platform are listed below organized by product and platform capability:

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Note:

Some permissions listed in this guide are not applicable when creating a project-level custom role. Those permissions can be assigned to a custom role only when creating a custom role at the organization-level.

Choosing to skip the below permissions may result in the following effects:

  • billing.budgets.create: The platform won't be able to create a cloud-native budget through the main portal, whereas platform-native budget alerts can still be configured.
  • billing.budgets.get/list: The platform won't be able to list a cloud-native budget through portal.
  • billing.budgets.update: The platform won't be able to update cloud-native budgets through the main portal.
  • resourcemanager.folders.get/list: The platform won't be able to pull the folders listed as part of an organization.
  • securitycenter.subscription.get: The platform won't be able to identify the Security Command Center subscription details. This is needed for access validation to configure threats.

FinOps

CapabilityDescriptionLeast Privilege Permissions
Billing AccountThese permissions are required for onboarding a GCP Billing Account. Once onboarded, users can proceed with Linked Project onboarding by segregating as per the needs of the bundles listed here.storage.buckets.get
storage.buckets.list
storage.objects.get
storage.objects.list
compute.regions.get
compute.regions.list
compute.zones.get
compute.zones.list
resourcemanager.projects.get
Cost Visibility and UsageAllow the platform to pull cost data from your GCP cloud account and displaying them as part of cost posturing.storage.buckets.get
storage.buckets.list
storage.objects.get
storage.objects.list
Cost Optimization DashboardAllow the platform to monitoring the utilization of your cloud resources in order to provide cost optimization recommendations through FinOps policies, retrieve native recommendations from GCP, and offer remediation actions.

Note: Cost optimization recommendations provided here cannot be remediated unless the necessary write permissions are given.		monitoring.alertPolicies.get
monitoring.alertPolicies.list
monitoring.metricDescriptors.get
monitoring.metricDescriptors.list
monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.get
monitoring.publicWidgets.get
monitoring.publicWidgets.list
monitoring.services.get
monitoring.services.list
monitoring.slos.get
monitoring.slos.list
monitoring.snoozes.get
monitoring.snoozes.list
monitoring.timeSeries.list
monitoring.dashboards.get
monitoring.dashboards.list
recommender.cloudsqlIdleInstanceRecommendations.get
recommender.cloudsqlIdleInstanceRecommendations.list
recommender.cloudsqlOverprovisionedInstanceRecommendations.get
recommender.cloudsqlOverprovisionedInstanceRecommendations.list
recommender.cloudsqlUnderProvisionedInstanceRecommendations.get
recommender.cloudsqlUnderProvisionedInstanceRecommendations.list
recommender.computeAddressIdleResourceRecommendations.get
recommender.computeAddressIdleResourceRecommendations.list
recommender.computeDiskIdleResourceRecommendations.get
recommender.computeDiskIdleResourceRecommendations.list
recommender.computeImageIdleResourceRecommendations.get
recommender.computeImageIdleResourceRecommendations.list
recommender.computeInstanceIdleResourceRecommendations.get
recommender.computeInstanceIdleResourceRecommendations.list
recommender.computeInstanceMachineTypeRecommendations.get
recommender.computeInstanceMachineTypeRecommendations.list
recommender.spendBasedCommitmentRecommendations.get
recommender.spendBasedCommitmentRecommendations.list
recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.get
recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list
Resource InventoryAllow the platform to provide pull resource data from GCP in order to provide cost recommendations through FinOps cost policies.

Note: Write permissions are also required for the platform to perform the following actions:
• Associate Volume
• Attach Load Balancer
• De-provision
•DetachLoadBalancer
•DisassociateVolume
• Extend Volume
• Modify Security Group
• Manage_Tags
• Remove Labels
• Resize
• Restart
• SetLabels
• Start
• Stop
• Update Labels		bigquery.datasets.get
bigquery.jobs.get
bigquery.jobs.list
bigquery.reservations.get
bigquery.reservations.list
bigtable.tables.get
bigtable.tables.list
cloudsql.databases.get
cloudsql.databases.list
cloudsql.instances.get
cloudsql.instances.list
compute.addresses.get
compute.addresses.list
compute.commitments.get
compute.commitments.list
compute.disks.get
compute.diskTypes.get
compute.diskTypes.list
compute.images.list
compute.instances.get
compute.instances.list
compute.regions.get
compute.regions.list
compute.reservations.get
compute.reservations.list
compute.zones.get
compute.zones.list
Cost BudgetAllow the platform to display cloud-native budgets from the CoreStack portal.

Note: The billing.budget API should be enabled in the billing project for budgets to be synced along with the Viewer permissions.		billing.budgets.get
billing.budgets.list

SecOps

CapabilityDescriptionLeast Privilege Permissions
Governance Configuration > Vulnerability Assessments and ThreatsAllow the platform to display vulnerabilities and threats from GCP Security Command Center.securitycenter.containerthreatdetectionsettings.get
securitycenter.eventthreatdetectionsettings.calculate
securitycenter.eventthreatdetectionsettings.get
securitycenter.findings.group
securitycenter.findings.list
securitycenter.findings.listFindingPropertyNames
securitycenter.rapidvulnerabilitydetectionsettings.get
securitycenter.securitycentersettings.get
securitycenter.securityhealthanalyticssettings.get
securitycenter.sources.get
securitycenter.sources.list
securitycenter.subscription.get
securitycenter.virtualmachinethreatdetectionsettings.get
securitycenter.websecurityscannersettings.get
Guardrails/Policies
Compliance Standards - GCP CAF		Allow the platform to run security policies against your cloud resources in order to get violations and remediate some of the violated resources.

Note: The platform can pull resources and run them against the CoreStack policy engine, but remediation of impacted resources requires write permissions.		compute.disks.list
compute.instances.get
compute.instances.list
compute.networks.list
compute.networks.get
compute.projects.get
compute.regions.get
compute.regions.list
compute.subnetworks.list
compute.zones.get
compute.zones.list
container.clusters.get
container.clusters.list
cloudsql.databases.get
cloudsql.databases.list
cloudsql.instances.get
cloudsql.instances.list

CloudOps

CapabilityDescriptionLeast Privilege Permissions
Activity and Alerts - Governance Configuration > Operations > Activity LogAllow the platform to configure activity logs and alerts via read and write permissions.

Note: The platform can't configure activity logs and alerts with only read permissions.		logging.sinks.get
logging.sinks.list
logging.views.list
pubsub.subscriptions.get
pubsub.subscriptions.getIamPolicy
pubsub.subscriptions.list
pubsub.topics.get
pubsub.topics.getIamPolicy
pubsub.topics.list
pubsub.topics.publish
Activity and Alerts -
Governance Configuration > Operations > Alerts		Allow the platform to configure monitoring alerts with a specific template.

Note: The platform can't configure monitoring templates with read permissions only. 		monitoring.alertPolicies.get
monitoring.alertPolicies.list
monitoring.metricDescriptors.get
monitoring.metricDescriptors.list
monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.get
monitoring.publicWidgets.get
monitoring.publicWidgets.list
monitoring.services.get
monitoring.services.list
monitoring.slos.get
monitoring.slos.list
monitoring.snoozes.get
monitoring.snoozes.list
monitoring.timeSeries.list
monitoring.alertPolicies.get
monitoring.alertPolicies.list
monitoring.metricDescriptors.get
monitoring.metricDescriptors.list
monitoring.monitoredResourceDescriptors.get
monitoring.publicWidgets.get
monitoring.publicWidgets.list
monitoring.services.get
monitoring.services.list
monitoring.slos.get
monitoring.slos.list
monitoring.snoozes.get
monitoring.snoozes.list
monitoring.timeSeries.list
monitoring.dashboards.get
monitoring.dashboards.list
monitoring.alertPolicies.create
monitoring.alertPolicies.delete
monitoring.alertPolicies.get
monitoring.alertPolicies.list
monitoring.alertPolicies.update
Resource InventoryAllow the platform to pull resources from GCP in order to populate the resource inventory in the portal UI.

Note: To show your resources in the platform's resource inventory, the below actions must be performed:
• Associate Volume
• Attach Load Balancer
• Deprovision
• DetachLoadBalancer
• DisassociateVolume
• Extend Volume
• Modify Security Group
• Manage_Tags
• Remove Labels
• Resize
• Restart
• SetLabels
• Start
• Stop
• Update Labels

The platform will require a few more governance permissions to accomplish this.		appengine.applications.get
appengine.instances.get
appengine.instances.list
appengine.services.get
appengine.services.list
appengine.versions.get
appengine.versions.list
bigquery.datasets.get
bigquery.jobs.get
bigquery.reservations.get
bigquery.reservations.list
bigquery.transfers.get
bigtable.tables.get
bigtable.tables.getIamPolicy
bigtable.tables.list
cloudfunctions.functions.get
cloudfunctions.functions.list
cloudiot.registries.get
cloudiot.registries.list
cloudscheduler.jobs.list
cloudsecurityscanner.scans.list
cloudsql.databases.get
cloudsql.databases.list
cloudsql.instances.get
cloudsql.instances.list
cloudtasks.queues.list
composer.environments.list
compute.addresses.get
compute.addresses.list
compute.autoscalers.get
compute.autoscalers.list
compute.backendBuckets.get
compute.backendBuckets.getIamPolicy
compute.backendBuckets.list
compute.backendServices.get
compute.backendServices.getIamPolicy
compute.backendServices.list
compute.commitments.get
compute.commitments.list
compute.disks.get
compute.disks.getIamPolicy
compute.disks.list
compute.disks.setLabels
compute.diskTypes.get
compute.diskTypes.list
compute.externalVpnGateways.list
compute.firewalls.get
compute.firewalls.list
compute.images.get
compute.images.list
compute.images.setLabels
compute.instances.get
compute.instanceGroups.list
compute.instances.get
compute.instances.list
compute.instances.setLabels
compute.instanceTemplates.get
compute.interconnects.get
compute.networkEndpointGroups.get
compute.networks.get
compute.networks.list
compute.regions.get
compute.regions.list
compute.routers.list
compute.routes.get
compute.securityPolicies.get
compute.snapshots.get
compute.snapshots.setLabels
compute.sslPolicies.list
compute.targetHttpProxies.get
compute.targetPools.get
compute.vpnGateways.list
compute.zones.get
compute.zones.list
container.clusters.get
container.clusters.list
dataflow.jobs.list
dns.managedZones.get
dns.managedZones.list
file.backups.list
file.instances.list
file.locations.list
iam.roles.list
iam.serviceAccounts.get
logging.sinks.create
logging.sinks.delete
logging.sinks.get
logging.sinks.list
logging.sinks.update
logging.views.list
monitoring.alertPolicies.get
monitoring.alertPolicies.list
monitoring.notificationChannels.get
monitoring.notificationChannels.list
pubsub.subscriptions.get
pubsub.subscriptions.getIamPolicy
pubsub.subscriptions.list
pubsub.topics.attachSubscription
pubsub.topics.detachSubscription
pubsub.topics.get
pubsub.topics.getIamPolicy
pubsub.topics.list
pubsub.topics.publish
resourcemanager.folders.get
resourcemanager.folders.list
resourcemanager.projects.get
resourcemanager.projects.list
run.services.list
spanner.databases.list
spanner.instances.list
storage.buckets.get
storage.buckets.list
storage.objects.get
storage.objects.list

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