What is Google Cloud Resource Manager?
Google Cloud Resource Manager enables programmatic management of container resources in Google Cloud. The service groups and organizes resources hierarchically through organizations, folders, and projects, forming the structural foundation for access control, policy, and billing.
Core Features
- Hierarchical organization via organizations, folders, and projects
- Tag management for labeling and organizing resources
- Foundation for IAM policies and their inheritance across the resource hierarchy
- REST API and client libraries for programmatic management
Typical Use Cases
Resource hierarchy
Structuring projects into organizations and folders that mirror your company structure.
Access control
Centrally assigning and inheriting IAM roles across the resource hierarchy.
Billing
Allocating costs to organizational units through structured project and folder hierarchies.
Tagging
Labeling resources for better discoverability and policy automation.
Benefits
- The organizational service itself is free to use
- Centralized, consistent management of access rights across many projects
- Tight integration with IAM, Cloud Billing, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud partner, innFactory supports you in building a clean resource hierarchy and establishing governance and access control in Google Cloud.
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Available Tiers & Options
Standard
- Free to use
- Central hierarchy for organizations, folders, and projects
- Foundation for IAM access control
- Pure organizational structure, no compute/storage functionality itself
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Google Cloud Resource Manager?
Google Cloud Resource Manager is the service used to group and hierarchically manage Google Cloud resources through organizations, folders, and projects. It forms the foundation for access control and policy inheritance.
When should I use Resource Manager?
Resource Manager is used in virtually every Google Cloud environment as soon as multiple projects need to be structured, assigned IAM roles, or grouped for billing purposes.
What does Google Cloud Resource Manager cost?
Using Resource Manager itself is free. Costs only arise from the actual Google Cloud resources used within the organized projects.
How does Resource Manager integrate with existing systems?
Resource Manager provides a REST API and client libraries, and is tightly integrated with IAM, Cloud Billing, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
What is the difference between organizations, folders, and projects?
The organization is the top level of the hierarchy, folders group projects or further folders beneath it, and projects are the basic containers for resources such as VMs, storage, or databases.
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