APIs and reference

The Cloud Router APIs and the gcloud command-line tool are part of Compute Engine. Cloud Router is represented as the Router resource type.

For more information, see the following:

• API Router resource in the Compute Engine documentation

• gcloud compute routers in the Cloud SDK documentation

Router appliance

Preview

This product or feature is covered by the Pre-GA Offerings Terms of the Google Cloud Terms of Service. Pre-GA products and features might have limited support, and changes to pre-GA products and features might not be compatible with other pre-GA versions. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions.

There are no changes to the Compute Engine API and the gcloud tool for VM instances resources that act as router appliance instances.

The Compute Engine API for the Router resource includes the following new fields in the add-bgp-peers or add-interface commands:

• --instance, which specifies the router appliance VM instance used for the BGP peer.
• --instance-zone, which specifies the zone that the router appliance instance resides in.

For more information about gcloud command options, see the following:

• compute routers add-bgp-peer (SDK)
• compute routers add-interface (SDK)

What's next

• To troubleshoot issues when using Cloud Router, see Troubleshooting.