Google Cloud Platform
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This topic describes how to connect your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account to SoftwareOne's FinOps for Cloud. When connecting your account, you will need to provide the billing data details, such as the dataset name and table name.
After you have enabled billing data export, a new table is displayed in your BigQuery project.
Note the names of the dataset and the table. You'll need these details when connecting your cloud account to FinOps for Cloud.
You can create a role using Google Cloud CLI or Google Cloud Console:
To create a service account:
Enter a service account name and optionally, enter a description of the service account.
Select Create and continue.
Select Done.
To generate an API key for your service account:
Find your service account in the service accounts list and click its name to go to the service account details page.
Go to the Keys tab.
Select Add key > Create new key.
The service account API key will be downloaded as a JSON file. Use this file when connecting your cloud account to FinOps.
Use the newly downloaded service account credentials JSON file with the billing dataset details to connect your GCP cloud account. Next, click Connect to complete the setup.
To enable billing data export, see in the Google documentation.
To assign the role via , run the following command:
Sign in to the .
In the Search bar, enter Roles, and then on the , click Create Role.
Learn about service accounts in the Google documentation - .
From your GCP console, select in the left-hand menu and click Create Service Account.
Select the and click Continue.