Account Mapping

Login to Google Cloud Console to collect information such as Paying Account Id, Project Id, Service Account Id, Bucket Name, Private Key file path, Usage File Prefix, and Username. These information will be useful for your while configuring your Cloud Credentials in Jamcracker Appliance. Follow the below steps to know how to collect the required information and add them to Add Cloud Credentials page.

1. Launch Google Cloud Console and login to the Google Cloud console using your credentials.

   

   Note: If you already have an existing project. We recommend you to copy the Project ID, which will be useful while mapping your cloud credentials.
2. (a). Click Select a Project to create a new project.

   

   (b). Click New Project.

   

   (c). Provide a name for the project and use the default location.

   

   (d). Click Create. The project is created successfully.

   Note: A default project ID is allocated to your new project. In case you want to change the project Id, click on Edit and Add New Project ID.

   

3. (a). Select the Project and navigate to Menu > APIs & Services > Dashboard page and click Enable APIs and Services.

   

   (b). Ensure you enable the below two services. If these two services are not enabled, then search for "Compute Engine API" and "Google Cloud Storage" and click Enable respectively.

   • Compute Engine API
   • Google Cloud Storage

   

   (c). Click Enable APIS AND SERVICES. You will be re-directed to API Library page, search for "Compute Engine API" and "Google Cloud Storage" services and click Enable respectively.

   

4. Now, you have to Create a Service Account. To create a Service Account, select the project and navigate to Menu > IAM & admin > Service accounts page.

   

5. (a) Click Create Service Account. You must provide a unique Service account name and select the role as Project > Owner and click Create. However, before you click Create. Please ensure you enable Furnish a new private key check-box and select the Key Type as P12. Make note of “Service Account ID” for future use.

   

   (b). Now, that you have created a P12 Key type, you have to create a JSON Key Type. Navigate to Menu > IAM & admin > Service accounts page. Identify the Service account and click Create Key from the Options column.

   

   (c). Select JSON as your Key Type. Click Create.

   

   Existing Bucket Mapping

6. (a). If you are adding a new project and want to map it to your existing bucket, then you must provide permissions for storage. To provide permissions, navigate to Menu > Storage page and select the Project from the drop-down list.

   

   (b). Select the Bucket and click Edit Bucket Permissions.

   

   (c). On the Edit Bucket Permissions page. In the Add Member field, provide the Service Account Id (to get the Service Account ID, navigate to Menu > IAM & admin > Service accounts page, identify the service account and you will find the Service Account ID against it) of new project and select Storage Admin from the Role drop-down list and click Add.

   

   New Bucket Mapping

   If you don't have an existing bucket, follow the steps below to create a new one.

7. (a). In menu option, Click Storage > Create Bucket.

   

   (b). Provide a unique bucket name, select the default storage class and select the location.

   

   (c). Click Create.

8. (a). In the menu option select Billing > Billing Export > File Export > Enable BillingExport and select the bucket you had created in the previous step.

   (b). Add proper prefix to the selected bucket and select file format as CSV.

   (c). Make note of bucket name, report prefix.

   

   (d). Click Save.

9. On the Menu, navigate to Billing > Billing Account ID page and make note of billing account Id.

   

10. To capture your Domain Name and SAML Name ID, login to GSuite Admin Console using your domain name or username and password.
11. Navigate to Menu > Domains page, and make note of your domain name, which will be useful while mapping your account with Jamcracker Appliance.
12. Navigate to Menu > Users page, and click on your account. You will find your username (which is your email ID in other words your SAML Name ID), make note of your email Id, which will be useful while mapping your account with Jamcracker Appliance.
13. Now that you have all the required information, login to Jamcracker Appliance to map your account.
14. Navigate to Manage > Cloud Service Credentials page. On the Cloud Credentials page, click Add Cloud Service Credentials.

    

The following table explains the configuration settings fields for Google Cloud Platform.

Once you are done with adding the cloud service credentials, refer Step 7 of Adding Cloud Service Credentials.