Projects
A Project is the home for an application's Cloud resources. It belongs to one Account and groups the services, identities, and usage associated with that application.
Why use Projects?
Applications need a clear place for their resources and permissions. A Project gives you that boundary, so you can enable services and inspect usage for one application at a time. Your Account remains the tenant and billing owner.
What you can do
- Create a Project and use its ID when calling Cloud APIs or the CLI.
- Enable the services the application needs through Service Usage.
- Manage access to its resources through IAM policies.
- Register OAuth clients and inspect service usage attributed to the Project.
How it fits together
Start with a Project, enable an available service, then create resources within it. A Build, Sandbox, or Database belongs to that Project. Use separate Projects when applications need separate resource and access boundaries.
Use Projects
Read the CLI reference for commands or the API reference for resources, request fields, and responses.