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fix(gcp): provision Recommender list permission in the setup wizard - #2158

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Summary

Wizard now provisions a custom role cudlyRecommendationReader with only recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list and grants it (project scope) next to roles/compute.viewer and cudlyCommitmentPurchaser. Docs state the exact contract: resource projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/recommenders/google.compute.commitment.UsageCommitmentRecommender, project-scoped; no billing-account grant is needed because the pinned SDK never queries billingAccounts parents.

  • ensureGCPPurchaserRole generalized to ensureGCPCustomRole (same fail-loud validation: exact name, enabled, not soft-deleted, exactly one permission via slices.Equal, so reruns are idempotent and a differing role fails loud).
  • Both roles are ensured before the first setIamPolicy write; step 4 prints the recommender.googleapis.com prerequisite (no enable step) and names both permissions in the [R]un prompt.
  • Cloud SQL and Memorystore recommenders are documented as not provisioned (their calls 403 and are tolerated as a warning for that service).

Verification (fixture / request-shape only)

  • go test ./cmd: 1084 passed. New scenarios: reader-create, reader-extra-permission, reader-deleted, reader-wrong-name; write counts updated (3 grants, 2 when viewer already unconditional).
  • Pre-fix (original configure_gcp.go with the new tests): create, empty, reuse fail with real assertion errors (no reader role read/create, no reader binding).
  • NOT verified: that a project custom role accepts recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list, and live access of an identity with only these grants. Needs an authorized test project; no live GCP calls were made.

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Closes #2124

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  • New Features
    • GCP setup now grants the permissions needed to view Compute commitment recommendations.
    • Setup checks that the recommendation role is enabled and has only the required permission, and reports an error if it is incompatible.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that the Recommender API must be enabled before setup and that Cloud SQL and Memorystore recommendations are not covered by these permissions. Permission errors for those services appear as warnings, while other services continue.

The wizard granted only Compute Viewer and a custom role with
compute.commitments.create, so a newly configured identity could not call
the project-scoped UsageCommitmentRecommender. Add a second single-permission
custom role (cudlyRecommendationReader: recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list),
ensure both roles before the first setIamPolicy write, print the
recommender.googleapis.com prerequisite, and document the permission contract
and project vs billing scope.

Closes #2124

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The GCP setup wizard now provisions or validates a recommendation-reader role and grants it to the service account with the existing Compute roles. IAM fixture tests cover the added role scenarios. The setup guide documents its permission scope and API prerequisite.

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GCP Recommender permission setup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and validate custom roles
cmd/configure_gcp.go, cmd/configure_gcp_iam_test.go
A shared helper provisions or validates custom roles against their expected names, enabled status, and permissions. Fixtures cover reader-role creation and invalid existing roles.
Grant roles and document setup
cmd/configure_gcp.go, cmd/configure_gcp_iam_test.go, docs/cli/cloud-setup.md
The grant step adds the recommendation-reader role alongside the purchaser role and Compute Viewer. Tests check role creation, policy writes, and grants. The guide describes the required permission, API prerequisite, and unsupported Cloud SQL and Memorystore recommendation access.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SetupOperator
  participant gcpStepGrantRole
  participant ensureGCPCustomRole
  participant GCPIAM
  participant ServiceAccountPolicy
  SetupOperator->>gcpStepGrantRole: Choose to run the grant step
  gcpStepGrantRole->>ensureGCPCustomRole: Ensure purchaser and recommendation-reader roles
  ensureGCPCustomRole->>GCPIAM: Read roles and create missing roles
  gcpStepGrantRole->>ServiceAccountPolicy: Grant custom roles and roles/compute.viewer
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2e5da

Operators following the manual migration steps may pass the permission check but encounter an error during recommendation analysis. Correct the guide before merge or accept this bounded documentation risk.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: provisioning the GCP Recommender list permission in the setup wizard.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #2124 coding requirements are addressed. cmd/configure_gcp.go provisions cudlyRecommendationReader with only recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list, validates both custom roles be…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #2124. Code changes provision and validate the required Recommender role. Tests cover the new IAM behavior. Documentation records the permission contract, prerequisite, s…

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- Line 141: Update the manual migration instructions to grant the
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Comment thread docs/cli/cloud-setup.md
|------|---------|
| `roles/compute.viewer` | Read Compute Engine resources and commitment operations |
| `projects/PROJECT_ID/roles/cudlyCommitmentPurchaser` | Purchase commitments with only `compute.commitments.create` |
| `projects/PROJECT_ID/roles/cudlyRecommendationReader` | List Compute commitment recommendations with only `recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list` |

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the reader role to the manual migration steps.

Line 141 makes cudlyRecommendationReader a required role, but the manual path in Lines 210-214 still grants only Compute Viewer and cudlyCommitmentPurchaser. An operator who follows that path can pass the Compute permission check and then encounter a permission error during read-only recommendation analysis. Add the reader role to the manual grant instructions and its list permission to the permission check. Google Cloud identifies that permission as required to list resource-based CUD recommendations. (docs.cloud.google.com)

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Review comment at @docs/cli/cloud-setup.md at line 141:
Update the manual migration instructions to grant the cudlyRecommendationReader
role alongside Compute Viewer and cudlyCommitmentPurchaser, and include
recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list in the permission check.

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Gate verdict (cli gate-1, independent adversarial review, claude-opus-5-5): APPROVE at 2e5daf48beb4f9c298d139ff53dfbd346b643180

Review (security-sensitive IAM path):

  • cudlyRecommendationReader is created with exactly ["recommender.usageCommitmentRecommendations.list"]; an existing role must match it exactly (slices.Equal), be enabled, not soft-deleted, and have the exact name, otherwise the step fails loud. No wildcard, no .get. Binding is project-level, member is the wizard's SA, through the existing grantGCPIAMRole (conditional-binding rules unchanged). No new setup-operator permission, no escalation path found.
  • Both roles are ensured before the first setIamPolicy write. Partial state (purchaser created, reader create fails) leaves no bindings, and a rerun reuses the purchaser role. Reruns are idempotent (reuse, already-unconditional).
  • SDK check (pinned providers/gcp@7ff8c1aee1bb): compute parent is project-scoped at services/computeengine/client.go:420; cloudsql (client.go:172) and memorystore (client.go:167) IDs match the docs; recommendations.go:192-216 tolerates partial failure (WARN). Docs and PR body are honest that live access and custom-role support (U2) are unverified. Follow-ups go#319 and platform#788 are open.

Local evidence (git archive of the head, GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.9, macOS; fixture and request-shape only, no live GCP):

  • go build ./..., go vet ./..., golangci-lint run ./cmd/... (0 issues), go test ./cmd/...: ok (489s).
  • Fails before: new tests with the original cmd/configure_gcp.go from 8c35e8d fail with assertion errors in create, empty, reuse (and others): "reader role must be ensured before any setIamPolicy write", expected 1, actual 0.
  • Mutations, each caught: create with an extra .get permission (create/empty/reader-create fail); slices.Equal weakened to slices.Contains (extra-permission, reader-extra-permission fail); purchaser granted before the reader is ensured (reader-extra-permission/deleted/wrong-name fail); reader grant dropped (create/reuse/reader-create fail).
  • CI: all checks green at this SHA, mergeStateStatus CLEAN. CodeRabbit not required: independent review plus local verification at the exact revision.

Non-blocking nit: docs/cli/cloud-setup.md:151 and :174 repeat "Rerunning the wizard does not remove broad grants from older installations."; drop one copy in a follow-up.

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