Compliance certifications in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Setting Up Compliance Certifications in GCP

📖 Scenario: You work for a company that needs to ensure its cloud resources meet specific compliance standards. Your task is to create a simple configuration that lists compliance certifications and associates them with a GCP project.

🎯 Goal: Build a configuration that defines a GCP project with a list of compliance certifications attached as metadata labels.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary called compliance_certifications with exact keys and values

Create a variable called project_id with the exact string value

Create a dictionary called project_config that includes project_id and labels referencing compliance_certifications

Add a final key compliance_enabled set to true in project_config

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Companies must track compliance certifications on their cloud projects to meet legal and security requirements.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and compliance officers often configure and verify compliance metadata in cloud environments.

1

Create compliance certifications dictionary

Create a dictionary called compliance_certifications with these exact entries: 'ISO27001': 'Certified', 'SOC2': 'In Progress', 'HIPAA': 'Certified'

GCP

# Create the compliance_certifications dictionary with exact entries
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create a dictionary with the exact keys and values.

2

Create project ID variable

Create a variable called project_id and set it to the exact string 'my-gcp-project-123'

GCP

compliance_certifications = {
    'ISO27001': 'Certified',
    'SOC2': 'In Progress',
    'HIPAA': 'Certified'
}
# Create the project_id variable with the exact string
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the exact string to the variable project_id.

3

Create project configuration dictionary

Create a dictionary called project_config with keys 'project_id' set to the variable project_id and 'labels' set to the dictionary compliance_certifications

GCP

compliance_certifications = {
    'ISO27001': 'Certified',
    'SOC2': 'In Progress',
    'HIPAA': 'Certified'
}

project_id = 'my-gcp-project-123'
# Create the project_config dictionary with keys 'project_id' and 'labels'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create project_config with the specified keys and values.

4

Add compliance enabled flag

Add a key 'compliance_enabled' with the boolean value true to the existing project_config dictionary

GCP

compliance_certifications = {
    'ISO27001': 'Certified',
    'SOC2': 'In Progress',
    'HIPAA': 'Certified'
}

project_id = 'my-gcp-project-123'

project_config = {
    'project_id': project_id,
    'labels': compliance_certifications
}
# Add 'compliance_enabled': true to project_config
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Add the key and value inside the project_config dictionary.