Add a GCP Cloud Credential

Add an existing GCP service account to NavOps so that you can create a cloud environment.

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. If you do not have this information see Create a Service Account.
  1. Login to NavOps.
  2. Go to Clouds, and then select Credentials.
  3. Click Add Cloud Credentials
  4. Click Select in the Google Cloud tile.
  5. Enter the following to add a cloud account:
    1. For Account name, enter any name for the cloud account.
      The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., gcp_cloudaccount.
    2. For Project ID, copy and paste the project_id value from the JSON file.
    3. For Client ID, copy and paste the client_id value from the JSON file.
    4. For Client Mail, copy and paste the client_email value from the JSON file.
    5. For Private Key ID, copy and paste the private_key_id value from the JSON file.
    6. 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.
  6. (Optional) For Tags, enter the suitable tags for the credentials.
  7. Click Test to check the credentials. If an error message is displayed, inspect the details from the Tasks list.
  8. Click Save.