How-to guides

Creating Cloud Routers

• Setting the VPC network dynamic routing mode

  Configure whether Cloud Router advertises and propagates routes regionally or globally.

• Creating Cloud Routers

  Create Cloud Routers.

Working with BGP sessions

• Establishing BGP sessions

  Establish BGP sessions.

• Updating the base advertised route priority

  Update the base advertised route priority of an existing BGP session.

• Terminating BGP sessions

  Terminate BGP sessions.

Configuring custom route advertisements

• Custom route advertisements introduction

  Customize the route advertisements of your Cloud Routers, BGP sessions, or both.

• Advertising custom IP ranges

  Customize route advertisements by IP range.

• Advertising specific VPC subnets

  Customize route advertisements by VPC subnet.

• Removing route advertisements

  Remove routes that are being advertised.

• Reverting to the default advertisement

  Revert to the default advertisements.

Managing Cloud Routers

• Listing and deleting Cloud Routers

  List the routers in your project or delete the ones you don't need.

• Viewing Cloud Router status and routes

  View the status of your BGP sessions and which routes they're advertising.

• Viewing a Cloud Router configuration

  View the configuration of your Cloud Router and its BGP sessions.

Viewing logs and metrics

• Viewing Cloud Router logs and metrics

  View Cloud Router logs in Cloud Logging and metrics in Cloud Monitoring.