Question

Your company acquired a smaller firm that runs workloads in a separate Google Cloud organization. Leadership wants to consolidate the acquired workloads under your existing organization's resource hierarchy while minimizing downtime. Several projects in the acquired org contain running Compute Engine and Cloud SQL resources with dependent IAM bindings. What is the recommended approach to bring these projects into your organization?

Accepted Answer

Use the project migration process to move each project from the source organization to a target folder in your organization, after ensuring org policies and IAM prerequisites are satisfied in both organizations.

Answer

Recreate each project from scratch in your organization, redeploy the resources with Terraform, and delete the old projects once traffic is cut over.

Answer

Merge the two organizations by contacting Google Cloud support to combine the two Cloud Identity accounts into a single organization node.

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Move the projects to the 'No organization' state first, then attach them individually to your organization's root node using gcloud projects create.