cloud-foundation-fabric/cloud-operations/scheduled-asset-inventory-export-bq/README.md

# Scheduled Cloud Asset Inventory Export to Bigquery

This example shows how to leverage [Cloud Asset Inventory Exporting to Bigquery](https://cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/exporting-to-bigquery) feature to keep track of your organization wide assets over time storing information in Bigquery.

The data stored in Bigquery can then be used for different purposes:

- dashboarding
- analysis

This example shows an export to Bigquery scheduled on a daily basis. 

The resources created in this example are shown in the high level diagram below:

<img src="diagram.png" width="640px">

## Prerequisites
Ensure that you grant your account one of the following roles on your project, folder, or organization.
 - Cloud Asset Viewer role (roles/cloudasset.viewer)
 - Owner primitive role (roles/owner)

## Running the example
Clone this repository, specify your variables in a `terraform.tvars` and then go through the following steps to create resources:

- `terraform init`
- `terraform apply`

Once done testing, you can clean up resources by running `terraform destroy`. To persist state, check out the `backend.tf.sample` file.

## Testing the example

You can now run queries on the data you exported on Bigquery. [Here](https://cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/exporting-to-bigquery#querying_an_asset_snapshot) you can find some example of queries you can run.

You can also create a dashborad connecting [Datalab](https://datastudio.google.com/) or any other BI tools of your choice to your Bigquery datase..
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## Variables

| name | description | type | required | default |
|---|---|:---: |:---:|:---:|
| cai_config | Cloud Asset inventory export config. | <code title="object&#40;&#123;&#10;organization &#61; string&#10;bq_dataset   &#61; string&#10;bq_table     &#61; string&#10;&#125;&#41;">object({...})</code> | ✓ |  |
| project_id | Project id that references existing project. | <code title="">string</code> | ✓ |  |
| *bundle_path* | Path used to write the intermediate Cloud Function code bundle. | <code title="">string</code> |  | <code title="">./bundle.zip</code> |
| *name* | Arbitrary string used to name created resources. | <code title="">string</code> |  | <code title="">asset-inventory</code> |
| *project_create* | Create project instead ofusing an existing one. | <code title="">bool</code> |  | <code title="">false</code> |
| *region* | Compute region used in the example. | <code title="">string</code> |  | <code title="">europe-west1</code> |

## Outputs

| name | description | sensitive |
|---|---|:---:|
| bq-dataset | Bigquery instance details. |  |
| cloud-function | Bigquery instance details. |  |
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