Connect your Google Cloud account

You can connect your Google Cloud account to cost management and the RHEL management bundle in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console:

Cost management
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Connect your Google Cloud account to cost management to track your cloud costs. You can use the cost management service to perform financially related tasks, such as:

  • Visualizing, understanding, and analyzing the use of resources and costs
  • Forecasting your future consumption and comparing them with budgets
  • Optimizing resources and consumption
  • Identifying patterns of usage for further analysis
  • Integrating with third-party tools that can benefit from cost and resourcing data

RHEL management bundle
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Connect your Google Cloud account to the RHEL management bundle in the Hybrid Cloud Console to use your Red Hat product subscriptions on Google Cloud.

The RHEL management bundle grants access to additional capabilities which are useful to deploying Red Hat products on the public cloud, including:

  • Red Hat gold images: You can use Red Hat cloud images in Google Cloud and bring your own subscription instead of paying hourly.
  • Autoregistration: This allows cloud instances to automatically connect to console.redhat.com when provisioned so you can use Red Hat Lightspeed services. Important
    To use RHEL management, you must enable Simple Content Access.

Create a Google Cloud integration
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You can connect your Google Cloud account to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console as a cloud integration so that you can use your Google Cloud data with Hybrid Cloud Console services.

Before you begin
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  • You are logged in to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console as an Organization Administrator or as a user with Cloud Administrator permissions. Note
    You cannot log in to the Hybrid Cloud Console with your email address unless your email address is the same as your Red Hat login. For more information, see ../get-started/access-hcc.dita#finding-login.
  • You have access to a Google Cloud account that you want to use with the Hybrid Cloud Console.

Procedure
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  1. Go to Settings > Integrations and select the Cloud tab.
  2. Click Add integration to open the Add a cloud integration wizard. If this is the first integration you are adding, skip this step.
  3. Select Google Cloud, and then click Next.
  4. Enter a descriptive name for the integration, for example, my_gcp_integration, and then click Next.
  5. Optional: Select a service to connect with Google Cloud. You can choose to create the integration without selecting a service. You can connect Hybrid Cloud Console services after you create the Google Cloud integration.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Follow the instructions in the integration wizard.
    Note
    If you selected Cost Management, see ../../cost-management/integrate/integrate-google-cloud-data-with-cost-management.ditamap#integrate-google-cloud-data-with-cost-management for detailed instructions.
  8. On the Review details page, review the details of the integration and then click Add. Your Google Cloud integration is added to the Hybrid Cloud Console.

Results
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  1. Go to the Integrations page, and select the Cloud tab.
  2. Confirm that your Google Cloud integration is listed and the status is Ready.