Google Cloud Persistent Disk inventory

Manage disk usage and lifecycle.

Description

A Persistent Disk inventory helps identify block-storage attachments and ownership. The existence of a disk is not itself a vulnerability.

Potential impact

Unlisted disks may be missed in snapshot reviews or continue to incur costs after they are no longer needed.

Remediation

Record each disk’s owner and attached workloads, then check snapshots, encryption keys, attachment status, and retention needs.

Examples

The examples add service and environment labels without changing encryption or snapshot settings.

Before

hcl
resource "google_compute_disk" "data" {
  name = "data-disk"
  type = "pd-ssd"
  zone = "us-central1-a"
}

After

hcl
resource "google_compute_disk" "data" {
  name = "data-disk"
  type = "pd-ssd"
  zone = "us-central1-a"

  labels = {
    service = "billing"
    env     = "prod"
  }
}

References