Tailwarden

In this article, you'll learn how to link your GCP project to Tailwarden and view all your active GCP resources on a single dashboard.

Please note that you must <a href="https://help.tailwarden.com/en/articles/8015522-enable-aws-per-resource-cost">follow the steps on this page</a> to enable cost tracking.

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To connect a GCP project, you first need to create a service-account on GCP.

Step 1: access API and Services - credentials page

- Step 1: access API and Services - credentials page

Step 2: create a service account. Two options here:

- Recommended: Please provide this list of permissions to the service account:
 apigateway.apis.list appengine.instances.list bigquery.datasets.get bigtable.instances.list storage.buckets.list dataflow.jobs.list cloudfunctions.functions.list iam.roles.list cloudkms.keyRings.list pubsub.topics.list compute.regions.list redis.instances.list run.services.list iam.serviceAccounts.list compute.snapshots.list cloudsql.instances.list compute.sslCertificates.list compute.instances.list bigquery.jobs.create artifactregistry.repositories.list container.clusters.list secretmanager.secrets.list
 
 The last permission "bigquery.jobs.create" will be used only if you want to see costs (see <a href="https://help.tailwarden.com/en/articles/8931080-connect-a-gcp-account-get-granular-insights-on-costs">this page</a>). In case you don't want to have costs enabled in Tailwarden, you don't need to have this permission added.

- Not recommended: Select the role "Basic" - "Viewer" for this service account

- Step 2: create a service account. Two options here:
 - Recommended: Please provide this list of permissions to the service account:
 apigateway.apis.list appengine.instances.list bigquery.datasets.get bigtable.instances.list storage.buckets.list dataflow.jobs.list cloudfunctions.functions.list iam.roles.list cloudkms.keyRings.list pubsub.topics.list compute.regions.list redis.instances.list run.services.list iam.serviceAccounts.list compute.snapshots.list cloudsql.instances.list compute.sslCertificates.list compute.instances.list bigquery.jobs.create artifactregistry.repositories.list container.clusters.list secretmanager.secrets.list
 
 The last permission "bigquery.jobs.create" will be used only if you want to see costs (see <a href="https://help.tailwarden.com/en/articles/8931080-connect-a-gcp-account-get-granular-insights-on-costs">this page</a>). In case you don't want to have costs enabled in Tailwarden, you don't need to have this permission added.
 
 - Not recommended: Select the role "Basic" - "Viewer" for this service account

Step 3: create a key for this service account and download it as a JSON

- Step 3: create a key for this service account and download it as a JSON

Step 4: connect your GCP project to Tailwarden

- Account label: the label of your cloud account on Tailwarden
- Service account key: the JSON you have downloaded in step 3
- Billing Dataset: optional - we advised you to let this empty and set-up cost insights as mentioned here.

- Step 4: connect your GCP project to Tailwarden
 - Account label: the label of your cloud account on Tailwarden
 - Service account key: the JSON you have downloaded in step 3
 - Billing Dataset: optional - we advised you to let this empty and set-up cost insights as mentioned here.

Congrats, your cloud account is connected! It might take a few minutes for Tailwarden to collect all the resources - you will be notified by email as soon as it's done. You can now jump in <a href="https://help.tailwarden.com/en/articles/8985633-discover-the-inventory-the-foundation-of-tailwarden">the inventory</a> and start learning about your cloud infrastructure!

To enable team members to access data from a newly added cloud account, please follow the access guidelines provided <a href="https://help.tailwarden.com/en/articles/8976016-user-management-a-comprehensive-guide">on this page</a>.

If you want to get granular insights on costs, there is an additionnal step to be done. Please refer to <a href="https://help.tailwarden.com/en/articles/8931080-connect-a-gcp-account-get-granular-insights-on-costs">this page</a> to learn more.

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