What roles does Appranix service account need to protect GCP resources?

What roles does Appranix service account need to protect GCP resources?

Appranix creates a service account and assigns the below roles to the service account.

The Role name and the purpose of the asking is explained in the below table.

Discovery - Permission required to discover the resources and its metadata.

Protection - Permission required to protect the resources and its metadata.

Recovery -  Permission required to recover the protected data from the Primary region to the secondary/DR region.


#RolesDiscoveryProtectionRecovery
1roles/compute.adminTRUETRUETRUE
2roles/deploymentmanager.editorFALSEFALSETRUE
3roles/cloudasset.viewerTRUETRUEFALSE
4roles/cloudsql.adminTRUETRUETRUE



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