Some Notes on Google Cloud Account

GCP Project and Firebase Project

Firebase and Google Cloud Platform share an underlying infrastructure, meaning they utilize the same project for their services. As explained in this article on Medium, linking an active billing account to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project essentially upgrades the corresponding Firebase project from the free Spark Plan to the pay-as-you-go Blaze Plan. You’ll receive an alert in Firebase stating “Project upgraded to the BLAZE plan due to activity in the Google Cloud Platform console.” Conversely, downgrading the Firebase Blaze Plan is the same as unlinking the billing account in GCP.

OS Default Settings (e.g. Ubuntu)

Default UID for <username> used to log in: 1001, where <username> is your Google username, e.g. the prefix in your Gmail address: <username>@gmail.com. The uid=1000 is used by the default user ubuntu.

Default groups: adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev netdev lxd ubuntu google-sudoers