After you create your Cloud Identity account and verify your domain, you’re returned to the Google Cloud console. Before you continue, you’ll need to accept the Cloud Identity Agreement on behalf of your organization. You’re then directed to the Identity page.
You now have a fully functioning Cloud Identity account. But you’ll also have the option to complete a few more setup steps in the console as described below.
Note: Later, you may want to return to the Google Admin console to add more users and create groups. For instructions, see Manage users.
About your Cloud Identity organization
Your Cloud Identity organization is created after you finish your signup and setup steps for your Cloud Identity service. This maps a Cloud Identity account from the Admin console to Google Cloud, and is used to group all of your projects for billing and management purposes. For example, using your Cloud Identity organization you can restrict project access only to Cloud Identity users.
As the first super admin to access the Google Cloud console, you’ll be assigned the role of Org Owner, and you’ll be able to manage the organization settings and assign policies at the highest level.
Migrate projects and billing accounts and set permissions
Important:
- Complete steps 1–2 below from your non-administrator Google Cloud account. This account is typically a personal Gmail account.
- Complete steps 3–6 from your Cloud Identity administrator account.
To migrate content from a previous account, follow these steps:
Use the steps below to migrate projects and billing accounts from accounts outside of your Cloud Identity organization to your new Cloud Identity organization. We recommend opening this page in a separate tab to use as reference while completing the steps.
- Sign in to the Google Cloud account that has the existing billing account you want to connect to.
- Grant your organization admin from Cloud Identity access to this billing account.
- Go to the left nav and open Billing.
- Navigate to the billing account you want to connect to.
- Add the Organization admin of your Cloud Identity as a Billing administrator.
You can grant access to projects one at a time, or via the bulk permissions UI. Step 1 below walks through the one-at-a-time method, while step 2 walks through the bulk method.
- Grant your organization admin Owner access to projects.
Navigate to the IAM & Admin page for the projects you want to migrate, and add your organization admin’s account as Owner. - Set Bulk permissions (optional).
Navigate to the IAM & Admin section and click Manage Resources or All projects from the left navigation. From the Manage Resources view, select all the projects you want to migrate and use the IAM panel to add your new account as Owner to these projects.
Sign in to your Cloud Identity account and check your email.
For the projects you're migrating, you must accept the project invitation sent via email to your new account. You must click the link in each email for each project that you're migrating.
- Remove access to the billing account.
Navigate to the billing account you connected from your old account, and remove access for any user accounts that are not within your company’s domain, including your @gmail.com account. - Remove access to projects.
- Navigate to the IAM & Admin page, and click Manage Resources.
- From the Manage Resources page, select No organization from the dropdown next to the filter control.
- The projects from your old account are displayed with a yellow warning icon. Select these projects and use the IAM panel to remove access for any accounts that are not within your company’s domain, including your @gmail.com account.
- Navigate to the IAM & Admin section, and click Manage Resources.
- From the Manage Resources page, click No organization from the dropdown list next to the filter control. The projects from your old account are displayed with a yellow warning icon.
- Select these projects from your old account, and click Migrate from the top bar, or click the icon for each project.
After the migration is finished, your projects will be moved to your company's organization. You must switch the No organization drop-down to your company's organization to view the projects.
- Navigate to the IAM & Admin section, and select your organization from the top bar dropdown. This will allow you to set IAM permissions that will affect all projects under your organization.
- From the IAM page, add your Admin users and grant them the appropriate roles.
For more details, see also Configuring permissions on Google Cloud.