Write rules for custom cloud controls

When you create a custom cloud control, you use Common Expression Language (CEL) expressions to create the rules that evaluate the properties of the scanned resource.

Your expressions can be checks of a single value or more complex compound expressions that check multiple values or conditions. Either way, the expression must resolve to a boolean false to trigger a finding.

CEL expressions that evaluate resource properties must conform to the following rules:

  • The properties that you specify in a CEL expression must be properties of the scanned resource, as defined in the API definition of the resource type.

  • All enums in a CEL expression must be represented as strings. For example, the following is a valid expression for the cloudkms.googleapis.com/CryptoKeyVersion resource type:

    resource.state = "PENDING_GENERATION"

  • The result of the CEL expressions that you define in the condition property must be a Boolean. A finding is triggered only if the result is false.

For more information about CEL, see the following:

Example CEL expressions

The following table lists some CEL expressions that you can use to evaluate resource properties.

Resource type Description CEL expression
cloudkms.googleapis.com/CryptoKey Check the Cloud KMS key rotation period has(resource.rotationPeriod) && resource.rotationPeriod < duration('60h')
compute.googleapis.com/Network Match Virtual Private Cloud peering rule to network peers resource.selfLink.matches('https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/global/networks/default') || resource.peerings.exists(p, p.network.matches('https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/global/networks/shared$'))
cloudfunctions.googleapis.com/CloudFunction Only allow internal ingress traffic for a Cloud Run function has(resource.ingressSettings) && resource.ingressSettings.matches('ALLOW_INTERNAL_ONLY')
compute.googleapis.com/Instance Resource name matches pattern resource.name.matches('^gcp-vm-(linux|windows)-v\\\\d+$')
serviceusage.googleapis.com/Service Only allow storage-related APIs to be enabled resource.state == 'ENABLED' && !( resource.name.matches('storage-api.googleapis.com') || resource.name.matches('bigquery-json.googleapis.com') || resource.name.matches('bigquery.googleapis.com') || resource.name.matches('sql-component.googleapis.com') || resource.name.matches('spanner.googleapis.com'))
sqladmin.googleapis.com/Instance Only permit public IP addresses that are on the allowlist (resource.instanceType == 'CLOUD_SQL_INSTANCE' && resource.backendType == 'SECOND_GEN' && resource.settings.ipConfiguration.ipv4Enabled ) && (resource.ipAddresses.all(ip, ip.type != 'PRIMARY' || ip.ipAddress.matches('IP_ADDRESS')))
dataproc.googleapis.com/Cluster Check if project IDs in a Dataproc cluster contain the substrings testing or development has(resource.projectId) && !resource.projectId.contains('testing') || !resource.projectId.contains('development')