SAFIRE

A flexible tool to create and delete GSuite projects, service accounts and jsons which can be used with shared/team drives.

You can install safire from pypi , docker hub, github or Colab

After installing but before using safire you must

• create a creds.json file
• run both safire auth projects and safire auth groups to create token.pickle and grptoken.pickle
  • Creating two tokens allows you to use different accounts for creating projects/SAs and creating group(s)
• Leram, see below for further details :-)

BONUS: safire list all will create both csv and xlsx files listing name/unique id/etc. for all projects, service accounts, shared drives, groups and group members for your account. Handy for use with other apps and scripts.

• Simple usage syntax: e.g. safire list projects

• Available main commands:

  • list
  • add / create
  • remove / delete
  • auth
  • enable
  • rename

• Most commands will tell you which subcommands are available by simply typing the main command with no flags. e.g. safire list or optionally safire list -h . Subcommands include:

  • projects
  • sas - aka service accounts
  • keys / jsons
  • groups
  • members
  • drives (yes, safire can create and delete shared drives)

• User configuration information such as project name/prefix, number of projects to create, service account prefix and so on are in the config.py file in the /safire/safire folder.

• All options can be set in either the config.py or via command line flags (-h or --help for any commands)

• If you install with pip then you can find the location of config.py with pip list -v | grep safire, then edit as needed

• Credential files and files created by safire are by default in the user home (~ in linux) directory under safire/creds, safire/data and safire/svcaccts. This location can be changed in config.py

• NOTE: Commands below are in the format safire command subcommand This assumes you pip install the script. You can run it directly without installing by navigating to /safire/safire and using ./safire.py command subcommand

Several ways to install/use safire:

• Recommended: Python 3.6.1 or higher

• pip install safire will install from pypi.org

  • Or I like pipx for a virtual env install withpipx install safire

• You can run safire directly after cloning from github using safire.py (Note that safire.py in two levels down: cd /opt/safire/safire; ./safire.py list projects)

  • If running manually, first run pip install -r requirements.txt to get dependencies installed

• For advanced or adventurous users there are other options to run safire from anywhere on your machine. e.g. using poetry, virtual env installs or directly using pip install .

  • For example to pip install locally:
    • Navigate to to the base /safire dir where you git cloned safire (/safire, not /safire/safire)
    • Use a recent version of pip that runs with pyproject.toml rather than setup.py [I just added setup.py, might help]
    • If you want to upgrade pip use pip install --upgrade pip or sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade pip
    • From your /safire folder run pip install . If successful then you should now be able to run safire everywhere

Apologies: Python dependencies are complex in different environments. Bear with me as I try to make installs easier.

Setup of safire

Before running safire you will need one gsuite project (new or old is fine) with several apis enabled.

• If no project exists go to https://console.cloud.google.com/projectcreate to create one in your main gsuite account

• Then go to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library. Ensure you choose your main project (dropdown at the top of the page), then enable the following APIs:

  [ You only need to do this once. ]

  • Admin SDK
  • Google Drive API
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
  • Cloud Resource Manager API
  • Service Usage API
  • Service Management API
  • Google Sheets API

Once you have enabled the above APIs then go to this page

• https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials
• Click Create Credentials
• Choose OAuth client ID
• For Application type choose Desktop app and name it as you like ( 'safire' or anything)
• Click Create
• Finally choose Download JSON
• You will use this JSON to create a token which allows you access to your account and gives you permission to create projects, service accounts, etc.
  • Keep one copy of this JSON in a safe place, then put a copy named creds.json in the ~/safire/creds folder [specified in your config.py file - you can change the location if you like]

Once you have this initial project created, all the APIs above enabled and have created/downloaded the credentials creds.json you are ready to use safire.

The command line is very flexible. You can quickly and easily

• create projects via safire add projects 5 will add 5 projects
• create and delete service accounts(SAs) via safire add sas proj000 will add
• create and delete json keys (that let you access shared drives and copy/sync/move files)
• add the SA emails to groups and shared drives to use with tools like sasync, cloudplow/cloudbox, crop etc.

Don't be afraid to play with the commands. You can fix almost anything by deleting and recreating components in a few minutes. [The exception being projects, which you should not delete as they go into a 30-day holding bin before being fully deleted, and count against your project quota.]

A typical, simple flow to use safire:

• download a credentials json
• create auth token to enable safire to access your account: safire auth all will create two tokens, one to access projects/drives/etc and one to access groups
• add projects: safire add projects 5 will add 5 projects using the prefix in your config.py file
• enable apis: happens automatically when you add projects, but can be done manually
• create sas: safire add sas "" will add sas to all or your projects using # of SAs in config.py
• download json keys: safire add jsons "" will create and download service account json keys to the folder in config.py
• add members to group: safire add members "" [email protected] will add all SA emails from all projects to a group called [email protected]
• add group to shared (team) drive

Detailed commands

list

safire list

SYNOPSIS

safire list COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

List drives, projects, service accounts (SAs), SA json keys, groups and group members. 
In most cases a filter can be applied.

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

 all
   List all drives, projects, service accounts, json keys, groups and group members. Also exports 
   these lists with full data fields to csv and xlsx files in data_path folder

 drives
   List team/shared drives. Match 'filter'

 groups
   List groups in the authorized account. Match 'filter'

 jsons
   alias: jsons = keys. List service account jsons/keys in the svcaccts folder. Match 'filter'

 keys
   alias: jsons = keys. List service account jsons/keys in the svcaccts folder. Match 'filter'

 members
   List members in groups. Groups match 'filter'

 projects
   List projects. Match 'filter'

 sas
   List service accounts for projects. Projects match 'filter'

add

safire add

SYNOPSIS

safire add COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

Add projects, drives, service accounts(SAs), SA keys/jsons and group members

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

 apis
   Enables apis for projects. 'drive' and 'iam' apis by default. Automatic when projects are 
   created but can be run manually also.

 drive
   Create a team/shared drive. Usage: 'safire add drive some_name'

 drives
   Create team/shared drives. Usage: 'safire add teamdrive some_filename' containing a list of drive names

 jsons
   Create and download json/key files to svcaccts folder. Add to TDs and/or groups.

 keys
   Create and download json/key files to svcaccts folder. Add to TDs and/or groups.

 members
   'add members' requires two arguments. Both 'project_filter' and 'group_filter' can be either the 
   full project/group name or a partial name which matches some projects/groups. 
   You can add SA emails from multiple projects to multiple groups if you wish.

 projects
   Create projects in authorized account. Usage: 'safire add projects 1'. Uses defaults in config if none specified.

 sas
   Create N service accounts/SAs in projects which match 'filter'. Usage: 'safire add sas xyz 5' will 
   add 5 SAs to all projects containing 'xyz' if fewer than 100 exist. Will not overwrite SAs.

 user
   Add user (typically group name) to a shared/team drive. Usage: 'safire add someTDid [email protected]'

delete

NAME

safire delete

SYNOPSIS

safire delete COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

Delete sas, jsons/keys, drives and group members. Note: 'remove' and 'delete' are equivalent commands

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

 drive
   Delete a team/shared drive. Usage: 'safire add teamdrive unique ID'. USE CAREFULLY! 
   Does not work with non-empty drives.

 drives
   Delete team/shared drives. Usage: 'safire add teamdrive some_filename' with unique IDs. USE CAREFULLY

 jsons
   Remove json keys from svcaccts path

 members
   Remove members from groups. Match 'filter'

 sas
   Usage: 'safire remove sas filter' where filter is a string to match the projects from which you want 
   to delete service accounts. To remove all SAs for all projects use "" as your filter

 user
   Remove user (typically group name) from a shared/team drive. Usage: 'safire remove someTDid [email protected]'

auth

NAME

safire auth

SYNOPSIS

safire auth GROUP | COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

Authorize the app to access your projects, SAs, drives and groups. To generate creds.json go 
to https://developers.google.com/apps-script/api/quickstart/python , click Enable then download a json, 
rename it to creds.json and put a copy in the /creds folder

GROUPS

GROUP is one of the following:

 scopes_all

 scopes_group

 scopes_proj

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

 all
   Create an auth token for adding/removing group members

 ask

 check

 groups
   Create an auth token for adding/removing group members

 projects
   Create an auth token for accessing and changing projects, service accounts, json keys and drives

enable

NAME

safire enable

SYNOPSIS

safire enable COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

Add projects, drives, service accounts(SAs), SA keys/jsons and group members

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

 apis
   Enables apis for projects. 'drive' and 'iam' apis by default. Automatic when projects 
   are created but can be run manually also.

rename

NAME

safire rename

SYNOPSIS

safire rename COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

Rename json/key files to their email prefix, email numeric (omit prefix), uniqId or in a sequence. 
Usage: 'safire rename jsons email'  [choice email, email_seq, uniq, seq] Renaming is repeatable. 
Can always delete and redownload keys if needed.

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

 jsons
   Usage: 'safire rename jsons email'  [choice email, email_seq, uniq, seq]

CREDITS:

Many ideas, some bits of code and inspiration from spazzlo, fionera and generally from l3uddz, ncw and others - all of whose projects are excellent and some of them do some/all of what safire does. If I forgot to mention you here let me know.

Thanks for testing by max, sk and recently by leram, jonfinley, 1activegeek and their posse