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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide
  3. Section I. CloudPoint installation and configuration
  4. CloudPoint cloud plug-ins
  5. Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes
  6. Configuring a GCP service account for CloudPoint
Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

Configuring a GCP service account for CloudPoint

To protect the assets in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CloudPoint requires permissions to be able to access and perform operations on those cloud assets. You must create a custom role and assign it with the minimum permissions that CloudPoint requires. You then associate that custom role with the service account that you created for CloudPoint.

Perform the following steps:

  1. Create a custom IAM role in GCP. While creating the role, add all the permissions that CloudPoint requires.

    See Google Cloud Platform permissions required by CloudPoint.

    Refer to the following GCP documentation for detailed instructions:

    https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-custom-roles

  2. Create a service account in GCP.

    Grant the following roles to the service account:

    • The custom IAM role that you created in the earlier step. This is the role that has all the permissions that CloudPoint requires to access GCP resources.

    • The iam.serviceAccountUser role. This enables the service account to connect to the GCP using the service account context.

    Refer to the following GCP documentation for detailed instructions:

    https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-accounts #iam-service-accounts-create-console

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