Add an existing GCP (Google Cloud Provider) service account to Altair NavOps to create a cloud bursting scenario or an
appliance.
Before you begin: A service account is a special
Google account that belongs to an application or a virtual machine, instead of to an
individual end user. Create a service account and give this account administrative
permissions for all Compute Engine resources. Once this task is complete, you should
have downloaded a JSON file containing the following:
You must
have created a GCP service account, given it Compute Admin permissions and
downloaded a JSON file containing information about the service account. The
information in the JSON file is necessary to create a cloud account in
NavOps.
Login to Altair NavOps.
Click Cloud in the left navigation pane.
Click .
Enter the following to add a cloud account:
For Account name, enter any name for the cloud
account.
The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g.,
gcp_cloudaccount.
For Project ID, copy and paste the project_id
value from the JSON file.
For Client ID, copy and paste the client_id
value from the JSON file.
For Client Mail, copy and paste the client_email
value from the JSON file.
For Private Key ID, copy and paste the
private_key_id value from the JSON file.
For Private Key, copy and paste the private_key
value from the JSON file.
Important: Do not copy the \n characters at
the end of the private_key value.