Google Cloud Service Accounts Security Best Practices

1 · Gianluca Brindisi · Nov. 8, 2020, 2:42 p.m.
Service Accounts in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are the main vector to hack an account: it’s easy to use them wrong and end up with a compromised key and a lot of headaches. What is a Google Cloud Service Account? Service Account (SA) is the identity in Google Cloud that you use to authenticate and authorize application and services. They come in two flavours: user and google managed. User Managed Service Accounts A user managed service account is, surprise, intended to be manually managed. What...