Enable Event Poller for GCP Projects

The Guardrails Event Poller are responsible polling GCP Logging at intervals specified and retrieves the latest events for processing.

This policy pack can help you configure the following settings for GCP Projects in Guardrails:

• Set a polling interval, i.e. the frequency to poll events from GCP
• Set a polling interval window
• Enable Event Poller

Review policy settings →

Getting Started

Requirements

• Terraform
• Guardrails mods:
  • @turbot/gcp

Credentials

To create a policy pack through Terraform:

• Ensure you have Turbot/Admin permissions (or higher) in Guardrails
• Create access keys in Guardrails

And then set your credentials:

export TURBOT_WORKSPACE=myworkspace.acme.com
export TURBOT_ACCESS_KEY=acce6ac5-access-key-here
export TURBOT_SECRET_KEY=a8af61ec-secret-key-here

Please see Turbot Guardrails Provider authentication for additional authentication methods.

Usage

Install Policy Pack

Note

By default, installed policy packs are not attached to any resources.

Policy packs must be attached to resources in order for their policy settings to take effect.

Clone:

git clone https://github.com/turbot/guardrails-samples.git
cd guardrails-samples/policy_packs/gcp/guardrails/enable_event_poller

Run the Terraform to create the policy pack in your workspace:

terraform init
terraform plan

Then apply the changes:

terraform apply

Apply Policy Pack

Log into your Guardrails workspace and attach the policy pack to a resource.

If this policy pack is attached to a Guardrails folder, its policies will be applied to all accounts and resources in that folder. The policy pack can also be attached to multiple resources.

For more information, please see Policy Packs.