IAP how it works

source: https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/concepts-overview#how_iap_works

IAP benefits

• Control access to app on Google Cloud
• Verify user identity and grant/deny access to app
• Access control in a central place
• Work from untrusted networks without the use of a VPN
• Implement a zero-trust access model
• Combine with Load Balancer and WAF (firewall) for added security

https://cloud.google.com/iap

Web app benefits

• avoid managing user authentication and session management
• receive information about the authenticated users, including the email address and a persistent identifier to the app in the form of new HTTP headers
• lots of security out of the box

Web app architecture

Tutorials

• auth(e) python with IAP = https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/getting-started/authenticate-users
• IAP and App Engine = https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/app-engine-quickstart

• multiple dbs on django = https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/db/multi-db/

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