Public Preview: Multicloud connector support for Google Cloud

We are excited to announce that the Multicloud connector is now in preview for GCP environments. With the Multicloud connector, you can easily connect your GCP projects and AWS accounts to Azure with the following capabilities:  

• Inventory: Get an up-to-date, comprehensive view of your cloud assets across different cloud providers. Now supporting GCP services (Compute VM, GKE, Storage, Functions, and more), you can now gain insights into your Azure, AWS, and GCP environments in a single pane of glass. The agentless inventory solution will periodically scan your GCP environment, project the discovered resources in GCP as Azure resources, including all of the GCP metadata like GCP labels. Now, you can easily view, query, and tag these resources from a centralized location. 

• Azure Arc onboarding: Automatically Arc-enable your existing and future GCP VMs so you can leverage Azure and Microsoft services, like Azure Monitor and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Through the multicloud connector, the Azure Arc agent will be automatically installed for machines that meet the prerequisites. 

How do I get started? 

You can easily set up the multicloud connector by following our getting started guide which provides step by step instructions on creating the connector and setting up the permissions in GCP which leveraged OIDC federation.

What can I do after my connector is set up? 

With the inventory offering, you can see and query for all of your GCP and Azure resources via Azure Resource Graph.

For Azure Arc onboarding, you can apply the Azure management services on your GCP VMs that are Arc-enabled. Learn more here. 

We are very excited about the expanded support in Google Cloud. Set up your multicloud connector now for free!  Please let us know if you have any questions by posting on the Azure Arc forum or via Microsoft support. Here is the mutlicloud capabilities technical documentation. Check out the Ignite session here!