Hey I am wondering if anyone knows how to set up sso with gcp with Azure ad being the third party idp? The problem I'm facing is we are applying to the production environment and we need to add sso by a single user basis. How would i go about configuring just one user on gcp to utilize AAD for sign on? I seen something in reference to adding the "network mask" of the user but im having trouble locating it?
You can integrate Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) with Google Cloud (G Suite) Connector.
1.first you need to add Google Cloud (G Suite) Connector from the gallery
2.you need to enable sso for that application
3.you need to create a test user and add user to application
4.configure google cloud sso(for this you need to login to Google cloud Gsuite admin console).
5.now you need to create google(G suite) cloud connector test user.
All the configuration steps are available in this Tutorial: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/google-apps-tutorial#configure-google-cloud-g-suite-connector-sso.
Note: We Cannot enable single sign-on for only a subset of Google Cloud (G Suite) Connector users. Google Cloud (G Suite) Connector doesn't support having multiple identity providers, the identity provider for your Google Cloud (G Suite) Connector environment can either be Azure AD or Google -- but not both at the same time.
You can create Google SSO profile assigments by using group, user or Organization and have it bypass 3rd party IDP authentication and instead authenticate against Google. See starting at step 5. Haven't tested it but working on it now.
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I am trying to authenticate a service account by gcloud auth login command using workload identity federation based on whats mentioned in this official tutorial. Even though the tutorial says both service account keys and workload identity federation works for my use case, WIF is the preferred route forward using credential configuration file. But I am quite confused trying to generate the file for my use case as doing so requires me to create a workload identity provider which are categorized to be among the following types:
AZURE,AWS,OIDC,SAML. I just want to use WIF to authenticate gcloud SDK from my terminal so I am not sure which category should I use.
Is this a possible use case or should I resort to use service account keys ?
But I am quite confused trying to generate the file for my use case as doing so requires me to create a workload identity provider which are categorized to be among the following types:
AZURE,AWS,OIDC,SAML. I just want to use WIF to authenticate gcloud SDK from my terminal so I am not sure which category should I use.
Is this a possible use case or should I resort to use service account keys ?
Workload Identity Federation(WIF), is used in multi-cloud environments and hybrid cloud environments where one needs access to one cloud platform from another cloud platform or from a data center as the services are catered across multiple platforms and needs coordination for running your application.
There are multiple ways to connect other cloud providers with GCP, you can use WIF for connecting with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you could use OpenID Connect (OIDC) or SAML 2.0 to connect with any other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure. Refer to the source for more information. (Source: GCP docs)
Since you are trying to connect to gcloud SDK from your terminal you can simply use your credential file or gcloud auth or gcloud init commands for setting up the gcloud cloud SDK and have necessary roles and permissions enabled for the service or user account which you are using for authentication. This is the simplest way to access your gcp environment. JFYI, in Authorize the gcloud CLI documentation(the doc which you were referring to) they are using the credential file which is different from WIF, so if you want to authenticate without using SA(service account) you can simply follow credential file based authentication.
I am using two different Google accounts for Google Developer and Google Cloud Services. I have a live Android app and now I want enable real-time-notifications for monetisation. Is there any way that I can link my Google Developer account to Google Cloud Services Account So I can integrate Pub/Sub service?
If I understand correctly this you could use Cloud IAM and give needed roles Developer account. So you can give ex. Project Owner rights to your Google Developer account and than this account can control the project as the owner.
But I don't think you need project owner for Pub/Sub integration. Please check this document that shows such process.
As well there is possibility to merge accounts via Google Workspace Support, however again I don't think this is needed to integrate pub/sub.
I wanted to use a service account to manage VM instances on GCE remotely. It did not work. Therefore this question. One difference I found between a service account and a user account, after many hours of trial-error, is that there seems no way to use a service account to ssh in to a VM instance.
What are the other differences?
Links I found related to my question:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gce-discussion/Z6OMpVhvowQ
Logging into google compute engine with a service account
The accepted answer is correct but lacks a deeper understanding of what credentials are in Google Cloud.
There are a number of types of credentials. User, Service Account, Group, Domain, etc. The difference is what the credentials represent and what is the authority for those credentials. Internally they are the same in regards to structure, content, etc.
All of the credential types are OAuth 2 credentials. A User Account credential is one that is issued by Google Accounts, G Suite or Identity Server. These credentials cannot be created by you or your software without Google. These credentials are issued by Google. Service Accounts, on the other hand, can create their own credentials as the service account contains the private key used to sign the credentials. The private key is used to create a Signed JWT that is then exchanged for OAuth Access Token, Refresh Token, and Identity Token. A Service Account is just a type of OAuth credential.
Google does not want User Credentials used to access Google Cloud resources except through the Google Cloud Console or Google Cloud SDK Tools and CLI. This is a security issue and design. Otherwise, the use and behavior are nearly identical except that some privileges cannot be assigned to some credential types.
By design, service accounts in Google are meant for non human users. They are a type of account used by resources in your google project (i.e. compute engine service account, app engine service account and etc).
Service accounts are designed as a type of account that is used by your Google cloud resources to communicate with other Google cloud services i.e. GCE to App Engine to Cloud Function or App Engine to google APIS like: vision API, speech to text...), or App Engine to Cloud SQL, etc.
You may refer to google documentation here for more details:
I have a Google Cloud Platform service account with domain-wide authority. I can add it to a Google Analytics API call from my terminal and it works correctly. However, I would like to run that same script as a Google Cloud Function and reference the service account in GCP without including the client_secret_service_account.json file (like below) in the repository or anywhere outside of GCP. Is that possible?
KEY_FILE_LOCATION = 'client_secret_service_account.json'
You can now reference the service account when deploying Cloud Functions. Check documentation for gcloud.
When using GCP console, expand "Advanced options" to inform the service account
Trying to setup Google Cloud Identity free for testing organizational policies.
However I'm always redirected to Gsuite and can't seem to get Cloud Identity free enabled.
Is it still available or was it deprecated?
Google Cloud Identity has not been deprecated. Google Cloud Identity does not require G Suite, but if you do have G Suite then this service is integrated into your G Suite account.
If you are having a problem with redirection, open your browser using incognito mode.