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BlueXP setup and administration

Google Cloud permissions for the Connector

Contributors netapp-bcammett amgrissino

BlueXP requires permissions to perform actions in Google Cloud. These permissions are included in a custom role provided by NetApp. You might want to understand what BlueXP does with these permissions.

Service account permissions

The custom role shown below provides the permissions that a Connector needs to manage resources and processes within your Google Cloud network.

You'll need to apply this custom role to a service account that gets attached to the Connector VM.

You also need to ensure that the role is up to date as new permissions are added in subsequent releases. If new permissions are required, they will be listed in the release notes.

title: NetApp BlueXP
description: Permissions for the service account associated with the Connector instance.
stage: GA
includedPermissions:
- iam.serviceAccounts.actAs
- compute.regionBackendServices.create
- compute.regionBackendServices.get
- compute.regionBackendServices.list
- compute.networks.updatePolicy
- compute.backendServices.create
- compute.addresses.list
- compute.disks.create
- compute.disks.createSnapshot
- compute.disks.delete
- compute.disks.get
- compute.disks.list
- compute.disks.setLabels
- compute.disks.use
- compute.firewalls.create
- compute.firewalls.delete
- compute.firewalls.get
- compute.firewalls.list
- compute.globalOperations.get
- compute.images.get
- compute.images.getFromFamily
- compute.images.list
- compute.images.useReadOnly
- compute.instances.addAccessConfig
- compute.instances.attachDisk
- compute.instances.create
- compute.instances.delete
- compute.instances.detachDisk
- compute.instances.get
- compute.instances.getSerialPortOutput
- compute.instances.list
- compute.instances.setDeletionProtection
- compute.instances.setLabels
- compute.instances.setMachineType
- compute.instances.setMetadata
- compute.instances.setTags
- compute.instances.start
- compute.instances.stop
- compute.instances.updateDisplayDevice
- compute.instanceGroups.get
- compute.addresses.get
- compute.instances.updateNetworkInterface
- compute.machineTypes.get
- compute.networks.get
- compute.networks.list
- compute.projects.get
- compute.regions.get
- compute.regions.list
- compute.snapshots.create
- compute.snapshots.delete
- compute.snapshots.get
- compute.snapshots.list
- compute.snapshots.setLabels
- compute.subnetworks.get
- compute.subnetworks.list
- compute.subnetworks.use
- compute.subnetworks.useExternalIp
- compute.zoneOperations.get
- compute.zones.get
- compute.zones.list
- compute.instances.setServiceAccount
- deploymentmanager.compositeTypes.get
- deploymentmanager.compositeTypes.list
- deploymentmanager.deployments.create
- deploymentmanager.deployments.delete
- deploymentmanager.deployments.get
- deploymentmanager.deployments.list
- deploymentmanager.manifests.get
- deploymentmanager.manifests.list
- deploymentmanager.operations.get
- deploymentmanager.operations.list
- deploymentmanager.resources.get
- deploymentmanager.resources.list
- deploymentmanager.typeProviders.get
- deploymentmanager.typeProviders.list
- deploymentmanager.types.get
- deploymentmanager.types.list
- logging.logEntries.list
- logging.privateLogEntries.list
- resourcemanager.projects.get
- storage.buckets.create
- storage.buckets.delete
- storage.buckets.get
- storage.buckets.list
- cloudkms.cryptoKeyVersions.useToEncrypt
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.get
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.list
- cloudkms.keyRings.list
- storage.buckets.update
- iam.serviceAccounts.getIamPolicy
- iam.serviceAccounts.list
- storage.objects.get
- storage.objects.list
- monitoring.timeSeries.list
- storage.buckets.getIamPolicy
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.getIamPolicy
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.setIamPolicy
- cloudkms.keyRings.get
- cloudkms.keyRings.getIamPolicy
- cloudkms.keyRings.setIamPolicy

How Google Cloud permissions are used

Actions Purpose

- compute.disks.create
- compute.disks.createSnapshot
- compute.disks.delete
- compute.disks.get
- compute.disks.list
- compute.disks.setLabels
- compute.disks.use

To create and manage disks for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

- compute.firewalls.create
- compute.firewalls.delete
- compute.firewalls.get
- compute.firewalls.list

To create firewall rules for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

- compute.globalOperations.get

To get the status of operations.

- compute.images.get
- compute.images.getFromFamily
- compute.images.list
- compute.images.useReadOnly

To get images for VM instances.

- compute.instances.attachDisk
- compute.instances.detachDisk

To attach and detach disks to Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

- compute.instances.create
- compute.instances.delete

To create and delete Cloud Volumes ONTAP VM instances.

- compute.instances.get

To list VM instances.

- compute.instances.getSerialPortOutput

To get console logs.

- compute.instances.list

To retrieve the list of instances in a zone.

- compute.instances.setDeletionProtection

To set deletion protection on the instance.

- compute.instances.setLabels

To add labels.

- compute.instances.setMachineType
- compute.instances.setMinCpuPlatform

To change the machine type for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

- compute.instances.setMetadata

To add metadata.

- compute.instances.setTags

To add tags for firewall rules.

- compute.instances.start
- compute.instances.stop
- compute.instances.updateDisplayDevice

To start and stop Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

- compute.machineTypes.get

To get the numbers of cores to check qoutas.

- compute.projects.get

To support multi-projects.

- compute.snapshots.create
- compute.snapshots.delete
- compute.snapshots.get
- compute.snapshots.list
- compute.snapshots.setLabels

To create and manage persistent disk snapshots.

- compute.networks.get
- compute.networks.list
- compute.regions.get
- compute.regions.list
- compute.subnetworks.get
- compute.subnetworks.list
- compute.zoneOperations.get
- compute.zones.get
- compute.zones.list

To get the networking information needed to create a new Cloud Volumes ONTAP virtual machine instance.

- deploymentmanager.compositeTypes.get
- deploymentmanager.compositeTypes.list
- deploymentmanager.deployments.create
- deploymentmanager.deployments.delete
- deploymentmanager.deployments.get
- deploymentmanager.deployments.list
- deploymentmanager.manifests.get
- deploymentmanager.manifests.list
- deploymentmanager.operations.get
- deploymentmanager.operations.list
- deploymentmanager.resources.get
- deploymentmanager.resources.list
- deploymentmanager.typeProviders.get
- deploymentmanager.typeProviders.list
- deploymentmanager.types.get
- deploymentmanager.types.list

To deploy the Cloud Volumes ONTAP virtual machine instance using Google Cloud Deployment Manager.

- logging.logEntries.list
- logging.privateLogEntries.list

To get stack log drives.

- resourcemanager.projects.get

To support multi-projects.

- storage.buckets.create
- storage.buckets.delete
- storage.buckets.get
- storage.buckets.list
- storage.buckets.update

To create and manage a Google Cloud Storage bucket for data tiering.

- cloudkms.cryptoKeyVersions.useToEncrypt
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.get
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.list
- cloudkms.keyRings.list

To use customer-managed encryption keys from the Cloud Key Management Service with Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

- compute.instances.setServiceAccount
- iam.serviceAccounts.actAs
- iam.serviceAccounts.getIamPolicy
- iam.serviceAccounts.list
- storage.objects.get
- storage.objects.list

To set a service account on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance. This service account provides permissions for data tiering to a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

- compute.addresses.list

To retrieve the addresses in a region when deploying an HA pair.

- compute.backendServices.create
- compute.regionBackendServices.create
- compute.regionBackendServices.get
- compute.regionBackendServices.list

To configure a backend service for distributing traffic in an HA pair.

- compute.networks.updatePolicy

To apply firewall rules on the VPCs and subnets for an HA pair.

- compute.subnetworks.use
- compute.subnetworks.useExternalIp
- compute.instances.addAccessConfig

To enable BlueXP classification.

- compute.instanceGroups.get
- compute.addresses.get
- compute.instances.updateNetworkInterface

To create and manage storage VMs on Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA pairs.

- monitoring.timeSeries.list
- storage.buckets.getIamPolicy

To discover information about Google Cloud Storage buckets.

- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.get
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.getIamPolicy
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.list
- cloudkms.cryptoKeys.setIamPolicy
- cloudkms.keyRings.get
- cloudkms.keyRings.getIamPolicy
- cloudkms.keyRings.list
- cloudkms.keyRings.setIamPolicy

To select your own customer-managed keys in the BlueXP backup and recovery activation wizard instead of using the default Google-managed encryption keys.

Change log

As permissions are added and removed, we'll note them in the sections below.

6 February, 2023

The following permission was added to this policy:

  • compute.instances.updateNetworkInterface

This permission is required for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

27 January, 2023

The following permissions were added to the policy:

  • cloudkms.cryptoKeys.getIamPolicy

  • cloudkms.cryptoKeys.setIamPolicy

  • cloudkms.keyRings.get

  • cloudkms.keyRings.getIamPolicy

  • cloudkms.keyRings.setIamPolicy

These permissions are required for BlueXP backup and recovery.