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Google Cloud Storage

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This topic describes how to connect Google Cloud Storage (GCS) application to PrivaceraCloud.

Connect GCS application

  1. Go the Setting > Applications.

  2. In the Applications screen, select GCS.

  3. Enter the application Name and Description, and then click Save.

Enable Privacera Access Management for GCS

  1. Click the toggle button to enable the Access Management for GCS.

  2. On the BASIC tab, paste credential JSON file details in Google Cloud Service Account Credential field. The following is the sample JSON for your reference:

    {
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "MyProjectID",
  "private_key_id": "c97****b5",
  "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nMII***r\nJA4RFEHkNOwuQ****FM\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
  "client_email": "abc@developer.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "1**8372",
  "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
  "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/5**7-compute%40developer.gserviceaccount.com"
}

  3. On the ADVANCED tab, you can add custom properties.

  4. Using IMPORT PROPERTIES , you can browse and import application properties.

  5. Click the TEST CONNECTION button to check if the connection is successful, and then click Save.

Using File Explorer with GCS

Go to Data Inventory > File Explorer and select your GCS data.

Enable Data Discovery for GCS

  1. Click the toggle button to enable the Data Discovery for GCS

  2. On the BASIC tab, paste credential JSON file details in Google Cloud Service Account Credential field.

    • Enable Folder name tagging toggle button to include folder names during scanning and tag the folders based on dictionary values.

  3. On the ADVANCED tab, you can add custom properties.

    For TagSync to Apache Ranger add the following custom properties:

    ranger.writer.enable=true
cluster_name=privacera
service_name=privacera_gcs

  4. Using IMPORT PROPERTIES , you can browse and import application properties.

  5. Click the TEST CONNECTION button to check if the connection is successful, and then click Save.

Add and scan resources

Go to PrivaceraCloud > Privacera Discovery > Data Source to add a resources using this connection as Discovery targets. See Privacera Discovery scan targets for quick start steps.