Google PCA Designing for Security and Compliance Practice Question
A DevOps engineer needs to grant a CI/CD pipeline (running in a different Google Cloud project) the ability to deploy resources into a target project. The pipeline uses a service account. What is the best way to grant this access?
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Add the service account email as a member of the target project with appropriate roles.
IAM allows granting roles to a service account principal from another project by specifying the full email of the service account as a member.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
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A service is a software component or system that performs a specific function and is available to be used by other programs or users over a network.
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A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end, undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result, managed through specific processes in IT environments.
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