Tag: GCP

  • Setting billing cap on Google Cloud Platform

    Setting billing cap on Google Cloud Platform

    You can setup pricing alerts on GCP in the Budgets & alerts but there seems to be no way to set hard billing cap. Meaning, if your spending reaches x amount the service(s) just stops.

    Fortunately Youtuber called Data Slayer has created nice YouTube tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiTg8RPpGG4 together with GitHub repo here: https://github.com/aioverlords/Google-Cloud-Platform-Killswitch

    You can combine budget pub/sub alerts with a cloud function that can disable billing on your entire account if a threshold is met.

    In shot

    const _disableBillingForProject = async projectName => {
    const res = await billing.updateBillingInfo({
        name: projectName,
        resource: {
            billingAccountName: ''
        }, // Disable billing
    });
    console.log(res);
    console.log("Billing Disabled");
    return `Billing disabled: ${JSON.stringify(res.data)}`;
    };