IAM Roles and Policy Bindings

This hands-on lab guides you through Google Cloud IAM role management and policy bindings. You will explore how IAM roles differ, learn to make least-privilege decisions, and validate effective access controls.

You'll learn to:

• Compare basic, predefined, and custom IAM roles using gcloud
• Examine role metadata to understand included permissions
• Create a service account and grant least-privilege project IAM bindings
• Validate effective access by testing allowed and denied operations
• Clean up IAM bindings and service accounts properly

Key Resources:

• IAM Documentation
• Understanding Roles
• Managing Service Accounts