After you set up Google Cloud using the Google Cloud setup process, you can extend your initial configuration and build your architecture.
Extend your initial setup
The Google Cloud setup process helps you create and deploy an initial configuration. To further customize your configuration to meet your organization's unique needs, you can perform the following optional procedures at any time after you complete your initial setup.
Manage users and groups
To manage users and groups beyond the initial administrators you created, do the following:
To manually create additional users and groups, see the following.
If you use an identity provider such as Active Directory, Azure AD, Okta, or Ping Identity, you can federate your provider into Google Cloud. For details see the following:
- Reference architectures: using an external IdP.
- To automatically provision users and enable single sign-on, see Federate Cloud Identity with Active Directory.
- To sync Active Directory users and groups to Google Cloud, see Directory Sync.
To automate identity administration tasks, see Google Workspace Admin SDK.
Monitor your billing account
To monitor costs after you set up your Cloud Billing account, we recommend that you implement the following for each account:
- For an overview of cost management best practices, see Cost optimization.
- Export detailed Cloud Billing data (such as usage, cost estimates, and pricing data) automatically throughout the day. For more information, see Export Cloud Billing data exports to BigQuery.
- Define budgets to generate alerts when spending reaches thresholds. For more information, see Create, edit, or delete budgets and budget alerts.
Customize your network
After you deploy your Google Cloud setup, you can customize your initial network configuration by doing the following:
To create and connect service projects, see Attach service projects.
If you create GKE instances in your projects, configure secondary IP address ranges for VPC-native clusters.
Maintain and analyze logs
After you create your initial logging configuration, do the following:
To query, view, and analyze logs, see Query and view logs overview.
Cloud Logging includes a free monthly allotment. You might incur additional costs as your resource use increases. For more information, see Cloud Logging pricing summary.
Give users access to support
To configure user access to support services, see Access control with IAM.
Build your Google Cloud architecture
When you are ready to experiment and build your Google Cloud architecture, see the following:
To quickly deploy and learn from prebuilt solutions, see Jump Start Solution guides.
To migrate your data and applications from other clouds and on-premises to Google Cloud, see What is Google Cloud Migration Center?
For workload migration best practices, see Migrate to Google Cloud.