README.md

Google-Cloud-Platform-Killswitch

Add a limit on billing costs for your GCP account.

Video Tutorial

Details from Google

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify

Enable Budget Notifications

Navigate to Billing Navigate to Budgets & alerts CREATE BUDGET

Listen to Notifications via Cloud Function

Create a cloud function with trigger type Pub/Sub Use the "index.js" and "package.json" scripts. Swap out your project ID in the index.js file. This script disable billing on the project which will render the services no longer working and stop any incremental costs from accruing.

Enable Cloud Billing API

Service Account Upgrade

Provide Billing Administration access to the Cloud Function Service Account

Publish Sub/Pub Message

https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudpubsub/topic/detail/budget-notifications?project=macgyver-services-production

{
    "budgetDisplayName": "name-of-budget",
    "alertThresholdExceeded": 1.0,
    "costAmount": 100.01,
    "costIntervalStart": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "budgetAmount": 100.00,
    "budgetAmountType": "SPECIFIED_AMOUNT",
    "currencyCode": "USD"
}

Validate that Billing is Disabled

https://console.cloud.google.com/billing/linkedaccount?project=macgyver-services-production