gcloud-lifecycle-management-not-enabled: Enable Lifecycle Management for Cloud Storage Objects

2025-08-01 gcloud PoC Public

Description

Ensure that your Google Cloud Storage buckets are configured with lifecycle management rules to optimize object management and reduce storage costs. Lifecycle management rules help automate actions such as downgrading or deleting older objects based on user-defined conditions.

PoC

id: gcloud-lifecycle-management-not-enabled

info:
  name: Enable Lifecycle Management for Cloud Storage Objects
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that your Google Cloud Storage buckets are configured with lifecycle management rules to optimize object management and reduce storage costs. Lifecycle management rules help automate actions such as downgrading or deleting older objects based on user-defined conditions.
  impact: |
    Without lifecycle management, your storage costs may increase due to older objects occupying space unnecessarily, and object management becomes less efficient.
  remediation: |
    Enable lifecycle management rules for your Cloud Storage buckets to automate actions like deleting or downgrading storage class of objects based on conditions.
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/lifecycle
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,google-cloud-storage,lifecycle-management,cost-optimization,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
    set("projectId", projectId)
    code(2)
    for(let bucketName of iterate(template.buckets)){
      set("bucketName", bucketName)
      code(3)
    }
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud projects list --format="json(projectId)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: projectIds
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[].projectId'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gsutil ls -p $projectId | jq -R . | jq -s .

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: buckets
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gsutil lifecycle get $bucketName

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - 'no lifecycle configuration'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"The bucket " + bucketName + " in project " + projectId + " does not have lifecycle management rules enabled."'
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100cf4cc3e7348b578f7491cd7526f1c375548cb7ef4d742bb001312bc6c51322a202207b414327ca9c5d8845f25fd73ccb754485f0598ab5db4ebc460752ff15e20752:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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