Create a sample IaC validation report

This tutorial describes how you can verify that your infrastructure as code (IaC) doesn't violate your organization policies or Security Health Analytics detectors.

Objectives

Create a security posture.
Deploy the posture on a project.
Check an example Terraform file for violations.
Fix the violations in the Terraform file, and check the file again to verify the fix.

Before you begin

Set up permissions

Make sure that you have the following role or roles on the organization: Project Creator and Security Posture Admin

Check for the roles

In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.
Go to IAM
Select the organization.
In the Principal column, find all rows that identify you or a group that you're included in. To learn which groups you're included in, contact your administrator.
For all rows that specify or include you, check the Role column to see whether the list of roles includes the required roles.

Grant the roles

In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.
Go to IAM
Select the organization.
Click Grant access.
In the New principals field, enter your user identifier. This is typically the email address for a Google Account.
Click Select a role, then search for the role.
To grant additional roles, click Add another role and add each additional role.
Click Save.

Set up Cloud Shell

In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

Activate Cloud Shell

At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

Find your organization ID:
```
gcloud organizations list
```

Prepare the environment

Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

Install the Google Cloud CLI.

If you're using an external identity provider (IdP), you must first sign in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.

To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

gcloud init

Create or select a Google Cloud project.

Roles required to select or create a project

Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator role (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.

Create a Google Cloud project:
```
gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID
```
Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.
Select the Google Cloud project that you created:
```
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
```
Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Enable the Security posture service and Security Command Center management APIs:

Roles required to enable APIs

To enable APIs, you need the serviceusage.services.enable permission. If you created the project, then you likely already have this permission through the Owner role (roles/owner). Otherwise, you can get this permission through the Service Usage Admin role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin). Learn how to grant roles.

gcloud services enable securityposture.googleapis.com  securitycentermanagement.googleapis.com