Apply workload updates

This page describes how to enable, view, and apply workload updates for Assured Workloads folders. Assured Workloads regularly updates its control packages with new settings and general improvements, such as updated organization policy constraint values. This feature lets you evaluate your current Assured Workloads folder configuration against the latest available configuration, and choose to apply any proposed updates.

By default, this feature is automatically enabled for new Assured Workloads folders. For existing folders, we strongly recommend that you follow the steps to enable workload updates.

This feature does not incur any additional charges, nor does it affect the behavior of Assured Workloads monitoring; you will still be alerted when your folder falls out of compliance with its current configuration, regardless of whether updates to its configuration are available.

Workload updates overview

When you create a new Assured Workloads folder, the control package type you select—such as FedRAMP Moderate—determines the various configuration settings that are applied on your workload. Some of these settings are externally visible in the form of organization policy constraints, although others are only applicable to Google's internal systems. Assured Workloads uses an internal configuration versioning system to maintain changes for each control package type.

When a new internal configuration version becomes available, Assured Workloads compares your workload's configuration to the new internal version. Any differences are analyzed, and the resulting enhancements become available as an update that you can apply to your workload's configuration.

Available Assured Workloads updates have been verified by Google to be compliant with the requirements of your workload's control package. However, it's still your responsibility to review each available update to ensure it meets your organization's regulatory or compliance requirements. See Shared responsibility in Assured Workloads for more information.

Supported update types

This feature supports viewing and applying the following types of updates on an Assured Workloads folder:

  • Organization policy constraints: Any organization policy constraints that are applicable to your workload and enforced by Assured Workloads can be included in a workload update, with the following exceptions:

    • gcp.resourceLocations
    • gcp.restrictCmekCryptoKeyProjects

Before you begin

  • Identify the resource IDs for the Assured Workloads folders for which to enable updates.
  • Assign or verify IAM permissions on the target Assured Workloads folders and workloads.

Required IAM permissions

To enable, view, or apply workload updates, the caller must be granted IAM permissions using either a predefined role that includes a wider set of permissions, or a custom role that is restricted to the minimum necessary permissions. Note that the required orgpolicy.policy.set permission is unavailable for use in custom roles.

The following permissions are required:

Enable workload updates

When you enable workload updates, the Assured Workloads Service Agent is created. This service agent is then granted the Assured Workloads Service Agent (roles/assuredworkloads.serviceAgent) role on the target Assured Workloads folder. This role enables the service agent to check for any available updates on the folder.

To enable workload updates, complete the following steps:

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Assured Workloads page.

    Go to Assured Workloads

  2. At the top of the page in the Introducing Compliance Updates pane, click Enable compliance updates.

  3. When prompted to Enable compliance updates?, click Enable.

Workload updates are now enabled for all Assured Workloads folders in your organization.

REST

The enableComplianceUpdates method enables Assured Workloads to notify you of updates for a single Assured Workloads folder.

HTTP method, URL, and query parameters: 

PUT https://[ENDPOINT_URI]/v1beta1/organizations/[ORGANIZATION_ID]/locations/[LOCATION_ID]/workloads/[WORKLOAD_ID]:enableComplianceUpdates

Replace the following placeholder values with your own:

  • ENDPOINT_URI: The Assured Workloads service endpoint URI. This URI must be the endpoint matching the location of the destination workload, such as https://us-west1-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com for a regionalized workload in the us-west1 region and https://us-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com for a multi-region workload in the US.
  • ORGANIZATION_ID: The organization ID for the Assured Workloads folder—for example, 919698201234.
  • LOCATION_ID: The location of the Assured Workloads folder—for example, us-west1 or us. It corresponds to the data region value of the workload.
  • WORKLOAD_ID: The ID of the Assured Workloads workload for which to enable updates—for example, 00-701ea036-7152-4780-a867-9f5.

For example: 

PUT https://us-west1-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com/v1beta1/organizations/919698298765/locations/us-west1/workloads/00-701ea036-7152-4781-a867-9f5:enableComplianceUpdates

View workload updates

To view workload updates, complete the following steps:

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Assured Workloads page.

    Go to Assured Workloads

  2. In the Name column, click the name of the Assured Workloads folder for which you want to view updates. Alternatively, if updates are available for the folder, click the link in the Updates column.

  3. Under Available updates, click Review available updates.

  4. If available, organization policy updates are shown in the Organization policy tab. Review the affected organization policy constraint and click View update to preview the constraint settings that will be applied by the update.

REST

The organizations.locations.workloads.updates.list method lists available updates for an Assured Workloads workload.

HTTP method, URL, and query parameters: 

GET https://[ENDPOINT_URI]/v1beta1/organizations/[ORGANIZATION_ID]/locations/[LOCATION_ID]/workloads/[WORKLOAD_ID]/updates?page_size=[PAGE_SIZE]&page_token=[PAGE_TOKEN]

Replace the following placeholder values with your own:

  • ENDPOINT_URI: The Assured Workloads service endpoint URI. This URI must be the endpoint matching the location of the destination workload, such as https://us-central1-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com for a regionalized workload in the us-central1 region and https://us-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com for a multi-region workload in the US.
  • ORGANIZATION_ID: The organization ID for the Assured Workloads folder—for example, 919698201234.
  • LOCATION_ID: The location of the Assured Workloads folder—for example, us-central1 or us. It corresponds to the data region value of the workload.
  • WORKLOAD_ID: The ID of the Assured Workloads workload for which to list available updates—for example, 00-701ea036-7152-4780-a867-9f5.
  • PAGE_SIZE (Optional): Limits the number of updates to return in the response. If unspecified, the default value is set to 20. The maximum value is 100.
  • PAGE_TOKEN (Optional): When one or more pages are available, a token for the next page is returned in the JSON response—for example, nextPageToken": "chEKD4IBDAid1e-3BhCo68f6AQ. If unspecified, no subsequent pages will be returned.

For example: 

GET https://us-central1-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com/v1beta1/organizations/919698298765/locations/us-west1/workloads/00-701ea036-7152-4781-a867-9f5/updates

If successful, you will receive a JSON response similar to the following example: 

{
  "workloadUpdates": [
    {
      "name": "organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/workloads/00-701ea036-7152-4781-a867-9f5/updates/5320de45-6c98-41af-b4a0-2ef930b124c3",
      "state": "AVAILABLE",
      "createTime": "2024-10-01T16:33:10.154368Z",
      "updateTime": "2024-10-01T16:33:10.154368Z",
      "details": {
        "orgPolicyUpdate": {
          "appliedPolicy": {
            "resource": "folders/376585579673",
            "constraint": "constraints/gcp.resourceLocations",
            "rule": {
              "values": {
                "allowedValues": [
                  "us-central1",
                ]
              }
            }
          },
          "suggestedPolicy": {
            "resource": "folders/376585579673",
            "constraint": "constraints/gcp.resourceLocations",
            "rule": {
              "values": {
                "allowedValues": [
                  "us-central1",
                  "us-central2",
                  "us-west1",
                ]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "nextPageToken": "chEKD4IBDAid1e-3BhCo68f6AQ"
}

Apply workload updates

Applying a workload update to a workload is a long-running operation. If your workload configuration changes after starting the operation and before it's complete, an error might occur.

Additionally, workload updates are periodically re-evaluated against the latest available configuration. In this case, additional updates might be available immediately after you've applied an update.

To apply workload updates, complete the following steps:

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Assured Workloads page.

    Go to Assured Workloads

  2. In the Name column, click the name of the Assured Workloads folder for which you want to view updates. Alternatively, if updates are available for the folder, click the link in the Updates column.

  3. Under Available updates, click Review available updates.

  4. If available, organization policy updates are shown in the Organization policy tab. Review the affected organization policy constraint and click View update to preview the updated constraint settings.

  5. Click Update organization policy to apply the update.

The long-running update operation starts, and the folder's new organization policy settings will be applied.

REST

The organizations.locations.workloads.updates.apply method applies the specified update for an Assured Workloads workload.

HTTP method, URL, and query parameters: 

POST https://[ENDPOINT_URI]/v1beta1/organizations/[ORGANIZATION_ID]/locations/[LOCATION_ID]/workloads/[WORKLOAD_ID]/updates/[UPDATE_ID]:apply

Replace the following placeholder values with your own:

  • ENDPOINT_URI: The Assured Workloads service endpoint URI. This URI must be the endpoint matching the location of the destination workload, such as https://us-central1-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com for a regionalized workload in the us-central1 region and https://us-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com for a multi-region workload in the US.
  • ORGANIZATION_ID: The organization ID for the Assured Workloads folder—for example, 919698201234.
  • LOCATION_ID: The location of the Assured Workloads folder—for example, us-central1 or us. It corresponds to the data region value of the workload.
  • WORKLOAD_ID: The ID of the Assured Workloads workload for which to list available updates—for example, 00-701ea036-7152-4780-a867-9f5.
  • UPDATE_ID: The ID of the update to apply, selected from the list of available updates returned by the organizations.locations.workloads.updates.list method—for example, edb84871-833b-45ec-9c00-c9b5c19d2d87.

Request body: 

{
  "name":"organizations/[ORGANIZATION_ID]/locations/[LOCATION_ID]/workloads/[WORKLOAD_ID]/updates/[UPDATE_ID]",
  "action": "APPLY"
}

For example: 

POST https://us-central1-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com/v1beta1/organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/workloads/00-701ea036-7152-4781-a867-9f5/updates/edb84871-833b-45ec-9c00-c9b5c19d2d87:apply

{
  "name": "organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/workloads/00-701ea036-7152-4781-a867-9f5/updates/edb84871-833b-45ec-9c00-c9b5c19d2d87",
  "action": "APPLY"
}

If successful, you will receive a JSON response similar to the following example: 

{
  "name": "organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/operations/647b1c77-b9a5-45d2-965e-70a1e867fe5b",
  "metadata": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.assuredworkloads.v1beta1.ApplyWorkloadUpdateOperationMetadata",
    "update_name": "organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/workloads/00-701ea036-7152-4781-a867-9f5/updates/edb84871-833b-45ec-9c00-c9b5c19d2d87",
    "create_time": "2024-10-01T14:34:30.290896Z",
    "action": "APPLY"
  }
}

To get the status of a long-running update operation, use the operation ID in the name value from the JSON response. Using the previous example, the operation ID is 647b1c77-b9a5-45d2-965e-70a1e867fe5b. Then make the following request, replacing the placeholder values with your own:

GET https://[ENDPOINT_URI]/v1/organizations/[ORGANIZATION_ID]/locations/[LOCATION_ID]/operations/[OPERATION_ID]

For example: 

GET https://us-central1-assuredworkloads.googleapis.com/v1/organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/operations/647b1c77-b9a5-45d2-965e-70a1e867fe5b

If successful, you will receive a JSON response similar to the following example: 

{
  "name": "organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/operations/647b1c77-b9a5-45d2-965e-70a1e867fe5b",
  "metadata": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.assuredworkloads.v1beta1.ApplyWorkloadUpdateOperationMetadata",
    "updateName": "organizations/919698298765/locations/us-central1/workloads/00-701ea036-7152-4781-a867-9f5/updates/edb84871-833b-45ec-9c00-c9b5c19d2d87",
    "createTime": "2024-10-01T13:33:09Z"
    "action": "APPLY"
  },
  "done": true
  "response": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.assuredworkloads.v1beta1.ApplyWorkloadUpdateResponse",
    "appliedUpdate": {
      "name": "organizations/531459884741/locations/us-central1/workloads/00-0b328e90-da70-431e-befc-a4a/updates/db556beb-ce66-4260-bd3b-28115f1ec300",
      "state": "APPLIED",
      "createTime": "2024-10-01T14:31:24.310323Z",
      "updateTime": "2024-10-01T14:34:30.855792Z",
      "details": {
        "orgPolicyUpdate": {
          "appliedPolicy": {
            "resource": "folders/196232301850",
            "constraint": "constraints/compute.disableInstanceDataAccessApis",
            "rule": {
              "enforce": true
            }
          },
          "suggestedPolicy": {
            "resource": "folders/196232301850",
            "constraint": "constraints/compute.disableInstanceDataAccessApis",
            "rule": {
              "enforce": false
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}