Intro

My notes on learning about GCP’s resource hierarchy

Tips and Tidbits

GCP’s Resource Hierachy explained.

The Project resource is the base-level organizing entity which holds all GCP resources (such as VM instances, networking, etc).
The next level up is Folders, an additional grouping mechanism on top of projects. Folders can be nested.
The Organization is the top of the hierarchy and does not have a parent.
Each resource (except the Organization) in GCP has exactly one parent. This allows access control to be set at a parent-level and flow down to its children.
Permissions that were inherited by the project from the original parent will be lost when the project is moved to a new folder. Permissions set at the destination folder will be inherited by the project as it is moved.

Source: Google