Discovery in GCP

Functions for Discovery in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) include: 

• Set up GCP Credentials for Discovery

• Set up GCP Profiles for Discovery

• Discovering and Importing Assets into the CMDB

• Scheduling Discovery

Setting up for discovery of assets in GCP requires you to enable related API features and you must have access via JSON credential key.

Steps to set up discovery of assets in GCP:

1. Create a project in the Google developer platform (https://console.cloud.google.com/) or open an existing project you want to configure for discovery of assets.

2. In the developer console, go to APIs & Services and enable the Cloud Asset API.

3. Set up a service account with role set to Cloud Asset Viewer. Create a new API key and download the JSON key file and keep it for later use.

 

Next, you can Set Up Credentials.

 

For more details on setup and configuring permissions, please click the links below to refer to the official Google documentation.

Google Cloud Asset Inventory documentation

Google Cloud Asset Inventory reference