Set up a folder

This document describes how to set up a Google Cloud folder as an app-enabled folder.

With an app-enabled folder, you can manage applications and group resources from all projects and subfolders it contains. This configuration is also known as the folder-level boundary.

App-enabled folders contain a management project and support all Application-centric Google Cloud features, including application design in Application Design Center, insights in Cloud Hub, and assistance from Gemini Cloud Assist. You can register resources from the Google Cloud projects in the app-enabled folder as services and workloads of applications.

After you set up an App Hub application on an app-enabled folder, you can use natural language prompts to retrieve information about this application. For more information, see Use Gemini Cloud Assist in the Google Cloud console.

You use Resource Manager to configure and manage app-enabled folders. For more information about the application-centric model and its resource organization, see Application-centric Google Cloud.

Configure an app-enabled folder

Before you begin, ensure you have the required roles to configure the app-enabled folder.

To set up the folder, follow the Resource Manager instructions to manage applications in a folder.

Manage projects in your app-enabled folder

App-enabled folders automatically make infrastructure resources from all descendant projects and folders available to group into an application. To control which resources are available, you can create, move, or delete projects and folders in the app-enabled folder:

It is important to understand the resource hierarchy in your app-enabled folder. If a project or folder containing services and workloads that you have grouped in an application is moved out of the app-enabled folder, the application will continue to exist in the app-enabled folder, but the registration status of services and workloads from that project or folder will change to detached.

Disable application management in a folder

You can disable application management from your Google Cloud folder if you don't want it to be an app-enabled folder anymore. For instructions, see Disable application management.

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