Developer Connect lets you connect external products or non-Googledeveloper tools to Google Cloud using standardized steps andapps. Developer Connect establishes the connectivity by walking you throughpermissions, authorization, authentication, and networking configurations tothe non-Google developer tools.

Developer Connect is designed for application developers, platformadministrators, and security managers who are looking for a way to usenon-Google products with Google Cloud.

Introduction

Developer Connect offers two ways to connect your external or non-Googledeveloper tools to your Google Cloud products:

• Git repositories connections
• Account connectors (Preview)

These are described in the following sections.

Git repositories

A Git repository connection is a Developer Connect feature that lets youcreate and maintain narrowly scoped connections to Git-based repositories onsource code management systems outside of Google Cloud.

This type of connection is a system connection to a Git repository, which youcan grant a service account permissions to use. Git repository connections areapplicable in scenarios where a user who authorized the connection doesn't needto be present when the connection is invoked. For example, when a Git repositoryis connected to your Cloud Build configuration, triggering a build upon acommit to the repository doesn't require you to do anything at build time. WithGit repository connections, you can configure bot services in accounts on thoseSCMs to handle routine tasks like cloning and indexing repositories.

You can use Git repository connections for:

• Gemini Code Assist code customization
• Gemini code review agent
• Firebase App Hosting web apps
• Cloud Build
• Cloud Run
• SaaS Runtime
• Application Design Center

For more information, including use cases and supported product integrations,seeGit repository connections.

Account connectors

This product or feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service Terms section of theService Specific Terms. Pre-GA products and features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more information, see thelaunch stage descriptions.

An account connector is a Developer Connect feature that helps you connectyour Google Cloud account with your individual account on annon-Google Developer Tools provider. Users can specify the type of data to beaccessed by the account connector by selecting the appropriate scope for thatconnector. Once an account connector connection is created for an organization,users within that organization can use that connection to authorize theirindividual accounts to be used with that connection.

For more information, including use cases and supported product integrations,seeAccount connectors.

What's Next

• Try creating a basic Git repository connection.
• Learn about Gemini Code Assist code customization.
• Build web apps in Firebase App Hosting using your GitHub repositories.