New Project Creation – Basics of Google Cloud Platform

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Google Cloud projects serve as the foundation for the creation, activation, and use of all Google Cloud services, such as managing APIs, enabling invoicing, adding and deleting collaborators, and managing permissions for Google Cloud resources.

Project can be created by following the steps in web console:

  1. Navigation from IAM and admin | Manage resources. The sequence can be seen in Figure 1.12:

Figure 1.12: Project Creation

  1. Click on CREATE PROJECT.

The project creation can be seen in the following figure:

Figure 1.13: Project Creation

  1. Users to provide name for the project, follow the steps as shown in Figure 1.14:

Figure 1.14: Project Creation

  1. Provide Project name.
  2. Project ID will be automatically populated, users can edit it while creation of the project. If users need to access the resources under Project through SDK or APIs project-ID is needed. Once project is created users cannot change the Project-ID
  3. If users are creating a project under Organization, select the organization. Users with free account cannot create organization or folder. All the projects will be created under No Organization.

Note: Users who are accessing through free account will be given limited amount of project creation.

Deletion of Project

To delete any project that is active:

  1. Select the project that needs to be deleted.
  2. Click on DELETE, users will be prompted for confirmation.

This can be seen illustrated in Figure 1.15:

Figure 1.15: Project deletion

Once the users will confirm the deletion of project, it will be marked for deletion and will be in same state for 30 days. Users can restore the project within a period of 30 days, post that project and the resources associated under that project will be deleted permanently and cannot be recovered back. Also, project which is marked under deletion is not usable.

Interacting with GCP services

When we talk about resources, let us discuss how we can work with them. GCP offers three basic ways to interact with the services and resources:

Google Cloud Platform Console

When working with Google Cloud, the Console or Web User Interface is the most common method of communication. At the same time, it delivers a wealth of functionality and an easy-to-use interface for the users who are just getting started with GCP.

Cloud console can be accessed with the link https://console.cloud.google.com.

Landing page of the google cloud console is as shown in Figure 1.16:

Figure 1.16: GCP Console