System Requirements for Google Cloud Spanner

Verify that your environment meets the system requirements for Cloud Spanner data on a Google application.

Access Nodes

Package required on access nodes:

• Virtual Server Agent

• Cloud Apps Agent

Access nodes must have one of the following operating systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x and later

• CentOS 7.x and later

• Windows 2012

• Windows 2016

Software, Roles and Permissions

• Your Google account must contain Cloud Spanner, cloud storage, and a compute engine. The Dataflow API must be enabled for your account.

• Verify that the service account has the following permissions to access the Google resources:

  Role	Name of the Permission	Description	Permissions	Lowest Resource
  roles/spanner.viewer	Cloud Spanner Viewer	You can view all instances but cannot modify them. You can view all databases but cannot modify or read them.	monitoring.timeSeries.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list spanner.databases.list spanner.instanceConfigs.* spanner.instances.get spanner.instances.list	Project
  roles/dataflow.admin	Dataflow	You can create and manage dataflow jobs.	compute.machineTypes.get dataflow.* resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list storage.buckets.get storage.objects.create storage.objects.get storage.objects.list	Not applicable
  roles/storage.admin	Storage Admin	You have full of buckets and objects. When applied to an individual bucket, you can control only the specified bucket and objects within the bucket.	firebase.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list storage.buckets.* storage.objects.*	Not applicable
  roles/spanner.databaseReader	Cloud Spanner Database Reader	You can read from the database. You can execute SQL queries on the database. You can view schema for the database.	spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction spanner.databases.getDdl spanner.databases.partitionQuery spanner.databases.partitionRead spanner.databases.read spanner.databases.select spanner.instances.get spanner.sessions.*	Instance
  roles/spanner.databaseAdmin	Cloud Spanner Database Admin	You can get or list all instances in the project. You can create, list, or drop databases in an instance. You can grant or revoke access to the databases. You can read from and write to all databases in the project.	monitoring.timeSeries.list resourcemanager.projects.get resourcemanager.projects.list spanner.databaseOperations.* spanner.databases.beginOrRollbackReadWriteTransaction spanner.databases.beginPartitionedDmlTransaction spanner.databases.beginReadOnlyTransaction spanner.databases.create spanner.databases.drop spanner.databases.get spanner.databases.getDdl spanner.databases.getIamPolicy spanner.databases.list spanner.databases.partitionQuery spanner.databases.partitionRead spanner.databases.read spanner.databases.select spanner.databases.setIamPolicy spanner.databases.update spanner.databases.updateDdl spanner.databases.write spanner.instances.get spanner.instances.getIamPolicy spanner.instances.list spanner.sessions.*	Instance