Remove projects

[lucius]

Hi All,

Maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but I searched a long time and don't know where to go with my question:

I got an e-mail from Google: "We have detected a publicly accessible Google API key associated with the following Google Cloud Platform project:..."

I don't use Google cloud services, my former employees did, but they and their accounts are long gone. I'm om my own as freelancer since about 4 years.

I saw there are still 4 Google cloud projects under my 'Organization', but I can't remove them because I don't have permission (while I am an organization admin)

Unfortunately I'm totally not familiar with Google Cloud, so does anybody know how I can remove these projects? So all my security risks are gone.

Many thanks in advance, 
Joris Lucius

[kolban]

Here is the recipe for shutting down a project ...

https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects#shutting_down_projects

[lucius]

Hi Kolban, thanks a lot for your reply.

The problem is: I don't have permissions to delete (while I am organization admin).. see screenshot:

[kolban · Accepted solution]

Howdy Lucius,

Lets imagine your org is "xyz.com" and you are the org admin ([email protected]).  You should be able to set the IAM permissions at the "Organization" level (the parent of your projects).  You should be able to give [email protected] the role "Owner".  Within GCP, roles cascade downwards.  This should mean that if you give yourself "Owner" permission at the Org level, you should then find that you have Owner permission at all of the descendant projects.  Lets see if that gives us joy and if not, post back.

[streamalive]

Hello, I have the same problem, finding alien projects on my GCP. How do I remove these projects.

[nikita258963]

Have even more interesting situation: yesterday I created a project (for testing purposes) and today I found 2 projectes with same name. One I schedule to "shut down" but on another one I found that owner is some unfamiliar to me email. So now I can't remove this project and can do anything and have no idea how this person ended to be my project owner. Please help 

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[lucius]

Great, that did the trick, thanks a lot!