Link billing account to project

This document provides instructions for linking a billing account to a project in GDC. This allows costs incurred by the project's resources to be tracked and charged to the specified billing account.

Before you begin

Ask your Organization Identity and Access Management (IAM) Admin to grant you the following required roles:

• Global Organization Billing Account Admin: create, manage, and bind the BillingAccount resource in the platform namespace. Ask your Organization IAM administrator to grant you the organization-billing-account-admin role in the platform namespace.

• Global Organization Billing Account User: read, list, and bind the BillingAccount resource in the platform namespace. Ask your Organization IAM administrator to grant you the organization-billing-account-user role in the platform namespace.

• Global Organization Billing Account Manager: read, list, create, and update the BillingAccountBinding resource across namespaces (such as the platform namespace for organization-level billing or a project namespace for project-level billing). Ask your Organization IAM administrator to grant you the organization-billing-manager role.

Note: Billing for all projects is managed by the same IAM role. To separate billing administration for different projects, one dedicated role is required for each project. Contact your Organization IAM Admin to create additional roles for individual project administration requirements.

Get the kubeconfig file

To run verification commands against the global API server, sign in and generate the kubeconfig file for the global API server if you don't have one.

Note: When managing BillingAccount and BillingAccountBinding custom resources (CRs) using YAML manifests, note that they are global resources and must be applied to the global API server. Don't apply or modify these YAML files directly using kubectl apply or kubectl edit. Instead, follow the Git-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflow in the IAC-R0004: Create and merge a merge request runbook to commit them to the infrastructure/global/orgs/ORG_NAME/oc/bil/ directory of the iac repository and go through the multi-party approval (MPA) process.

Create a billing account

If you need to create a new billing account before linking it to a project, follow the instructions in Create a new billing account.

Link project to billing account

To associate a project with an existing billing account, see the steps for Link a project.

Change the linked billing account for a project

If you need to change the billing account associated with a project, see Change the linked billing account.