A foundation includes fundamental settings that help you organize, manage, and maintain Google Cloud resources. Create a Proof of concept foundation to support experimental workloads with basic security in mind. This option guides you through the Organization, Billing, and Resource Hierarchy tasks.
Configure your foundation
To create a proof of concept foundation, do the following:
Complete the Organization task.
Configure an identity provider, verify your domain, and generate your organization.
Sign in to the console as the super administrator user you created in the Organization task.
Select the Proof of concept foundation option.
Make sure the organization you created is selected, and click Continue to Billing.
The following groups are required to complete the remaining steps. The groups are created, and you are added as a member of each group.
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Select or create a billing account. For more information, see the Billing task.
Click Continue to Review and Deploy Foundation.
From the Review and deploy your configuration screen, review the following draft configurations:
Resource hierarchy: Review the folder and projects.
Organization policies: Review the list of recommended organization policies. For more information, see Apply recommended organization policies.
Deploy your foundation.
For more information on deployment options, see Deploy your configuration.
To enable billing on the management project, see Link a billing account to your management project.
What's next
For information on experimenting and building, see Build your Google Cloud architecture.