From the course: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Platform Introduction by Google

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Module review

Module review

- [Instructor] Let's review the key points from this module. In this module, we reviewed the resource hierarchy for the GDC and its contributing influence to platform security. The resource hierarchy provides logical boundaries that can be governed to ensure data protection and least privilege access. The GDC resource hierarchy is composed of an organization resource in global resources, such as Kubernetes clusters and projects, which are formal Kubernetes namespaces. Service resources such as VMs, database instances, and object storage must belong to projects. Within the GDC platform, all resources are owned by the organization. Lastly, GDC has multi-tenant capabilities that allow segmentation of physical hardware and logical networks. We reviewed the features of Anthos Identity Service, AIS, which acts as a bridge between your existing identity systems and the GDC platform, making it easier to manage authentication…

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