Installing a GCP connector on GKE using CLI (Helm)

Deploy the Apono connector with Helm

Integrating a cloud account with Apono allows you to sync and manage your resources:

  • Discover existing privileges and identities

  • Manage employee and application provisioning to cloud assets and data repositories with delegated approval workflows

  • Provide granular permissions to customer-sensitive data

This article explains how to set up an Apono connector for Google Cloud with Helm.

Prerequisites

Item
Description

Apono Token

Account-specific Apono authentication value Use the following steps to obtain your token:

  2. Click Cloud installation.

  3. Click Cloud installation > GCP > Install and Connect GCP Project > CLI (Cloud Run).

  4. Copy the token listed on the page in step 1.

Kubernetes Command Line Tool (kubectl)

Google Cloud Command Line Interface (Google Cloud CLI)

Google Cloud Information

Information for your Google Cloud instance:

  • GKE Cluster Namespace

  • Service Account Name

Owner Role

Create an IAM service account

Use the following sections to create an IAM service account user for either your Google Project or Google Organization.

Project

Follow these steps to create a service account for a Google Project:

  1. In your shell environment, log in to Google Cloud and enable the API.

    gcloud auth login
gcloud services enable cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com

  2. Set the environment variables.

    export GCP_PROJECT_ID=<GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID>
export APONO_TOKEN=<YOUR_APONO_TOKEN>
export APONO_CONNECTOR_ID=<A_UNIQUE_CONNECTOR_NAME>
export NAMESPACE=<GKE_CLUSTER_NAMESPACE>
export SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME=<SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME>

  3. Create the service account.

    gcloud iam service-accounts create $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME --project $GCP_PROJECT_ID

  4. Assign the following roles to the service account.

    Role
    Permissions Granted

    role/secretmanager.secretAccessor

    • Access secret versions

    • Read the secret data

    roles/iam.securityAdmin

    • Manage IAM policies, roles, and service accounts

    • Set and update IAM policies

    • Grant, modify, and revoke IAM roles for users and service accounts

    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $GCP_PROJECT_ID \
    --member="serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@$GCP_PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role="roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor" \
    --project $GCP_PROJECT_ID

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $GCP_PROJECT_ID \
    --member="serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@$GCP_PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role="roles/iam.securityAdmin" \
    --project $GCP_PROJECT_ID

Organization

Follow these steps to create a service account for a Google Organization:

  1. In your shell environment, log in to Google Cloud and enable the API.

    gcloud alpha auth login
gcloud services enable cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com

  2. Set the environment variables.

    export GCP_PROJECT_ID=<GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID>
export GCP_ORGANIZATION_ID=<GOOGLE_ORGANIZATION_ID>
export APONO_TOKEN=<YOUR_APONO_TOKEN>
export APONO_CONNECTOR_ID=<A_UNIQUE_CONNECTOR_NAME>
export NAMESPACE=<GKE_CLUSTER_NAMESPACE>
export SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME=<SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME>

  3. Create the service account.

    gcloud iam service-accounts create $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME --project $GCP_PROJECT_ID

  4. Assign the following roles to the service account.

    Role
    Permissions Granted

    role/secretmanager.secretAccessor

    • Access secret versions

    • Read the secret data

    roles/iam.securityAdmin

    • Manage IAM policies, roles, and service accounts

    • Set and update IAM policies

    • Grant, modify, and revoke IAM roles for users and service accounts

    roles/browser

    • List resources within the organization

    • View metadata

```shell
gcloud organizations add-iam-policy-binding $GCP_ORGANIZATION_ID \
    --member="serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@$GCP_PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role="roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor"

gcloud organizations add-iam-policy-binding $GCP_ORGANIZATION_ID \
    --member="serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@$GCP_PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role="roles/iam.securityAdmin"
    
gcloud organizations add-iam-policy-binding $GCP_ORGANIZATION_ID \
    --member="serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@$GCP_PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role="roles/browser"
```

Deploy the connector

Follow these steps to deploy the Apono connector:

  1. Deploy the Apono connector on a GKE cluster.

  1. Create a new GKE cluster

    gcloud container clusters create CLUSTER_NAME

  2. Connect the GKE cluster.

gcloud container clusters get-credentials CLUSTER_NAME --region REGION --project $GCP_PROJECT_ID

  1. Verify the GKE cluster is selected as the default cluster. The default cluster is denoted with \*.

    kubectl get-contexts

  1. Bind the IAM Service Account to the GKE Service Account.

gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding $SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@$GCP_PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
    --member="serviceAccount:$GCP_PROJECT_ID.svc.id.goog[$NAMESPACE/apono-connector-service-account]" \
    --role="roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser" \
    --project $GCP_PROJECT_ID

  1. Deploy Apono connector on your GKE cluster using Helm Chart.

helm install apono-connector apono-connector --repo https://apono-io.github.io/apono-helm-charts \
    --set-string apono.token=$APONO_TOKEN \
    --set-string apono.connectorId=$APONO_CONNECTOR_ID \
    --set-string serviceAccount.gcpServiceAccountEmail=$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME@$GCP_PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
    --namespace $NAMESPACE \
    --create-namespace
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