Features that will help billing administration in Google cloud console
These requests may be of interest to those managing cloud resources for their institution/organization. Please upvote and leave a comment if you are interested!
1. When you create a terra billing project it creates a corresponding google project organized under "No organization" in GCP. Users want the ability to organize it within their organization.
2. Today you cannot add labels to the Terra-generated google project. Users want the ability to do this to easily automate cost accounting in their institutions.
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When it creates the projects, it does so in our tenant but outside of our organization. They're essentially orphan projects in our tenant. This has the following implications:
They do not inherit any policies applied to the organization. From a governance (and guardrail) standpoint, that is a no-no.
The tenant admins cannot see what is going on in the project at all. From an admin AND a billing standpoint, those are BIG no-nos.
Hello Etienne
Thank you for writing in! I've sent Tiffany's request to our development team for consideration and added your comments as support, and I'll be happy to follow up with you if this feature gets built.
Kind regards,
Shoaib
Hi Etienne Low-Decarie,
In order to better understand the situation and implement a new feature, the backend team wanted to know if these observations you made about project creation were done under your regular use of Terra or through a test demo. Could you please give us a bit of info about the circumstances under which your organization found this info.
Kind regards,
Shoaib
I think it would count as regular use: we signed in to https://app.terra.bio/ and linked to our GCP account from there. The same behavior arises when using my personal GCP account as when using our corporate account.
Hello Terra.bio team. Can you share an update on being able to have the GCP projects created under a GCP Organization?
Shoaib Rakhangi As Etienne mentioned this is a large security and billing concern. Any updates on when this will be addressed? This issue is blocking our organization's further adoption of Terra Bio.
In terms of use/behavior; this community post outlines the problem with orphaned projects quite well: https://support.terra.bio/hc/en-us/community/posts/12772989942299-Google-Cloud-Project-Ownership-and-Compliance
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