Stage 2 · Lesson 4 of 8
Projects, folders and the organisation
On Google Cloud every belongs to a . A project has a unique ID, its own enabled , its own IAM policy and a link to a . Companies arrange projects in folders under an organisation node, and permissions set higher up are inherited below.
One project per app and environment keeps mistakes and costs contained, and deleting a project shuts everything in it down. Get used to setting your current project in before running commands.
Common trapdoing everything in the auto-created first project, until nobody can tell which VM, bucket or database belongs to which experiment.
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