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implementing-gcp-organization-policy-constraints

Implement GCP Organization Policy constraints to enforce security guardrails across the entire resource hierarchy, restricting risky configurations and ensuring compliance at organization, folder, and project levels.

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Implementing GCP Organization Policy Constraints

Overview

The GCP Organization Policy Service provides centralized and programmatic control over cloud resources. Organization policies configure constraints that restrict one or more Google Cloud services, enforced at organization, folder, or project levels. They improve security by blocking external IPs, requiring encryption, and minimizing unauthorized access. Changes can take up to 15 minutes to propagate.

When to Use

  • When deploying or configuring implementing gcp organization policy constraints capabilities in your environment
  • When establishing security controls aligned to compliance requirements
  • When building or improving security architecture for this domain
  • When conducting security assessments that require this implementation

Prerequisites

  • GCP Organization with Organization Administrator role
  • gcloud CLI configured and authenticated
  • Terraform or gcloud for policy management
  • Organization Policy Administrator IAM role (roles/orgpolicy.policyAdmin)

Core Concepts

Constraint Types

  1. List Constraints: Allow or deny specific values (e.g., allowed regions)
  2. Boolean Constraints: Enable or disable a capability (e.g., disable serial port access)
  3. Custom Constraints: User-defined rules targeting specific resource fields (Preview)

Policy Inheritance

Policies inherit from the lowest ancestor with an enforced policy. If no ancestor has a policy, Google's managed default behavior applies.

Essential Security Constraints

Restrict VM External IP Addresses

bash
# Deny external IP addresses on all VMs
gcloud resource-manager org-policies set-policy \
  --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID \
  policy.yaml

policy.yaml:

yaml
constraint: constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess
listPolicy:
  allValues: DENY

Restrict Resource Locations

bash
gcloud org-policies set-policy \
  --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID \
  location-policy.yaml

location-policy.yaml:

yaml
constraint: constraints/gcp.resourceLocations
listPolicy:
  allowedValues:
    - "in:us-locations"
    - "in:eu-locations"

Disable Default Service Account Creation

yaml
constraint: constraints/iam.automaticIamGrantsForDefaultServiceAccounts
booleanPolicy:
  enforced: true

Require OS Login for SSH

yaml
constraint: constraints/compute.requireOsLogin
booleanPolicy:
  enforced: true

Disable Serial Port Access

yaml
constraint: constraints/compute.disableSerialPortAccess
booleanPolicy:
  enforced: true

Enforce Uniform Bucket-Level Access

yaml
constraint: constraints/storage.uniformBucketLevelAccess
booleanPolicy:
  enforced: true

Restrict Public IP on Cloud SQL

yaml
constraint: constraints/sql.restrictPublicIp
booleanPolicy:
  enforced: true

Disable Service Account Key Creation

yaml
constraint: constraints/iam.disableServiceAccountKeyCreation
booleanPolicy:
  enforced: true

Terraform Implementation

hcl
resource "google_organization_policy" "restrict_vm_external_ip" {
  org_id     = var.org_id
  constraint = "constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess"

  list_policy {
    deny {
      all = true
    }
  }
}

resource "google_organization_policy" "restrict_locations" {
  org_id     = var.org_id
  constraint = "constraints/gcp.resourceLocations"

  list_policy {
    allow {
      values = ["in:us-locations", "in:eu-locations"]
    }
  }
}

resource "google_organization_policy" "require_os_login" {
  org_id     = var.org_id
  constraint = "constraints/compute.requireOsLogin"

  boolean_policy {
    enforced = true
  }
}

resource "google_folder_organization_policy" "dev_folder_external_ip" {
  folder     = google_folder.dev.name
  constraint = "constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess"

  list_policy {
    allow {
      values = ["projects/dev-project/zones/us-central1-a/instances/bastion-host"]
    }
  }
}

Dry-Run Testing

Use Policy Intelligence tools to test changes before enforcement:

bash
# Create a dry-run policy to monitor impact
gcloud org-policies set-policy \
  --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID \
  dry-run-policy.yaml

dry-run-policy.yaml:

yaml
constraint: constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess
listPolicy:
  allValues: DENY
dryRunSpec: true
bash
# Check violations against dry-run policy
gcloud org-policies list-custom-constraints \
  --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID

Custom Constraints

yaml
# custom-constraint.yaml
name: organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID/customConstraints/custom.disableGKEAutoUpgrade
resourceTypes:
  - container.googleapis.com/NodePool
methodTypes:
  - CREATE
  - UPDATE
condition: "resource.management.autoUpgrade == true"
actionType: DENY
displayName: Deny GKE auto-upgrade on node pools
description: Prevents enabling auto-upgrade on GKE node pools for controlled upgrades
bash
gcloud org-policies set-custom-constraint custom-constraint.yaml

Monitoring and Compliance

List active policies

bash
gcloud org-policies list --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID

Describe a specific policy

bash
gcloud org-policies describe constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess \
  --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID

Audit policy violations with Cloud Asset Inventory

bash
gcloud asset search-all-resources \
  --scope=organizations/ORGANIZATION_ID \
  --query="policy:constraints/compute.vmExternalIpAccess"

Recommended Baseline Policies

Constraint Type Scope Purpose
compute.vmExternalIpAccess List/Deny Org Prevent public VM IPs
gcp.resourceLocations List/Allow Org Restrict to approved regions
iam.disableServiceAccountKeyCreation Boolean Org Force Workload Identity
compute.requireOsLogin Boolean Org Mandate OS Login for SSH
storage.uniformBucketLevelAccess Boolean Org Enforce uniform bucket access
sql.restrictPublicIp Boolean Org No public Cloud SQL
compute.disableSerialPortAccess Boolean Org Disable serial port
compute.disableNestedVirtualization Boolean Org No nested VMs

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