Advanced Networking Demos Cloud Firewall Plus, NCC VPC spokes & NFO edition
Ammett Williams
Developer Relations Engineer
In this blog we dive into the world of enhanced networking in Google Cloud. You will explore three updates in network security, seamless VPC spoke connectivity, and robust multi-network support. In addition to reviewing the documentation, you can learn visually by checking out the hands-on demo videos for each in the advanced networking demo playlist.
# 1 - Advanced Networking Demo series: Cloud Firewall Plus
This video touches on the topic of intrusion prevention systems. Google Cloud has previewed its Cloud Firewall Plus offering which is integrated with Palo Alto to provide advanced threat detection and prevention integrated into the cloud managed offerings.
The video talks about the feature set and has a very clear demo done by a networking specialist as to how easy it is to configure and get running in the cloud environment.
Video: Cloud Firewall Plus demo video
# 2 - Advanced Networking Demo series: Network Connectivity Center VPC spokes demo
Google Cloud NCC VPC spoke capability is in GA and allows you to interconnect VPCs across various Google Cloud environments. This is managed in a centralized manner allowing the inter-VPC traffic to stay on Google Cloud network. This offers an alternative to VPC network peering and overcomes some of the limitations.
The video covers a demo that connects various VPC and also demonstrates how the issues of overlapping IPs can be addressed.
Video: Network Connectivity Center (NCC) VPC spoke demo
# 3 - Advanced Networking Demo series: Network Function Optimizer in GKE demo
Network Function Optimizer is a network service available to GKE that provides multi-network support and a high-performance Kubernetes-native dataplane. Multi-network is one of the fundamental pillars of NFO.
The video covers a very detailed setup demo that shows you how to deploy multi-network capabilities for pods in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster.
Video: Network Function Optimizer in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) demo
What’s next?
Subscribe to the Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel to get updates on all our awesome content. Check out and bookmark the Advanced Networking demo series playlist as new videos will be uploaded in the future.
To learn more check out the following:
- Cloud Firewall plus, check out the documentation on the setup process.
- NCC VPC spoke support, check out the hub administration documentation and get hands-on with the NCC VPC as a Spoke codelab.
- Network Function Optimizer: Get hands-on with the Deploy and Validate GKE NFO Multi-Network & High Performance Interface codelab
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