Policy: GCP > Compute Engine > Disk > Data Protection > Managed Snapshots

Guardrails can automate taking disk snapshots and manage the retention of these snapshots.

This policy enables / disables that feature, enforcing the schedule in the Managed Snapshots > Schedule and Managed Snapshots > Minimum Schedule sub-policies.

Resource Types

This policy targets the following resource types:

GCP > Compute Engine > Disk

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

GCP > Compute Engine > Disk > Data Protection

Controls

GCP > Compute Engine > Disk > Data Protection

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` >- Enforce: Manage snapshots, per `Managed Snapshots > Schedule` and `Managed Snapshots > Minimum Schedule`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/resourceDataProtection

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/gcp-computeengine#/policy/types/diskDataProtectionManagedSnapshots

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/gcp-computeengine#/policy/types/diskDataProtectionManagedSnapshots") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-computeengine#/policy/types/diskDataProtectionManagedSnapshots'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/gcp-computeengine#/policy/types/diskDataProtectionManagedSnapshots'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/gcp-computeengine#/policy/types/diskDataProtectionManagedSnapshots"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/gcp-computeengine#/policy/types/diskDataProtectionManagedSnapshots"