Set up a VPC Service Controls perimeter for a Virtual Private Cloud network

Learn how to set up a service perimeter using VPC Service Controls. This tutorial uses networking settings such as firewalls, Private Service Connect, and DNS configurations that are necessary to use a VPC Service Controls perimeter effectively. This tutorial then demonstrates how services are allowed or denied, and how to make granular exceptions for an allowlist of specific services.

Objectives

• Configure a VPC Service Controls perimeter with additional networking controls to mitigate exfiltration paths.
• Allow or deny access to services inside the perimeter from requests that originate from inside the perimeter or outside the perimeter.
• Allow or deny access to services outside the perimeter from requests that originate within the perimeter.
• Use the Restrict Resource Service Usage organization policy and VPC Service Controls together.

Costs

This tutorial uses the following billable components of Google Cloud:

• Compute Engine
• Cloud Storage
• Private Service Connect

To generate a cost estimate based on your projected usage, use the pricing calculator.

When you finish this tutorial, you can avoid continued billing by deleting the resources you created. For more information, see Clean up.

Before you begin

1. This tutorial requires a project under your organization. If you don't already have a Google Cloud organization, see creating and managing an organization.

2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

4. Enable the Compute Engine, Access Context Manager, and Cloud DNS APIs.

   Enable the APIs

5. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

6. Make sure that you have the following role or roles on the organization: Access Context Manager Admin, Organization Policy Administrator

   Check for the roles

   1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.

      Go to IAM
   2. Select the organization.

   3. In the Principal column, find all rows that identify you or a group that you're included in. To learn which groups you're included in, contact your administrator.

   4. For all rows that specify or include you, check the Role colunn to see whether the list of roles includes the required roles.

   Grant the roles

   1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.

      Go to IAM
   2. Select the organization.
   3. Click Grant access.

   4. In the New principals field, enter your user identifier. This is typically the email address for a Google Account.

   5. In the Select a role list, select a role.
   6. To grant additional roles, click Add another role and add each additional role.
   7. Click Save.

7. Make sure that you have the following role or roles on the project: Compute Admin, DNS Administrator, IAP-Secured Tunnel User, Service Account User, Service Directory Editor

   Check for the roles

   1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.

      Go to IAM
   2. Select the project.

   3. In the Principal column, find all rows that identify you or a group that you're included in. To learn which groups you're included in, contact your administrator.

   4. For all rows that specify or include you, check the Role colunn to see whether the list of roles includes the required roles.

   Grant the roles

   1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.

      Go to IAM
   2. Select the project.
   3. Click Grant access.

   4. In the New principals field, enter your user identifier. This is typically the email address for a Google Account.

   5. In the Select a role list, select a role.
   6. To grant additional roles, click Add another role and add each additional role.
   7. Click Save.

Set up your VPC Service Controls perimeter

To implement a VPC Service Controls perimeter for a VPC network, you must implement networking controls that deny traffic to external services. The following sections detail the networking configurations you must implement in VPC networks inside your perimeter and an example perimeter configuration.

Prepare your VPC network

In this section, you set up private connectivity to Google APIs and services for your VPC network to mitigate a range of network egress paths to the internet.

1. In Cloud Shell, set variables:

   gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
   gcloud config set compute/region REGION
   gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

   Replace the following:

   • PROJECT_ID: the project ID for the project where you will create resources
   • REGION: a region that's close to your location—for example, us-central1
   • ZONE: a zone that's close to your location—for example, us-central1-a

2. Create a VPC network and a subnet with Private Google Access enabled:

   gcloud compute networks create restricted-vpc --subnet-mode=custom
   gcloud compute networks subnets create restricted-subnet \
   --range=10.0.0.0/24 \
   --network=restricted-vpc \
   --enable-private-ip-google-access

3. Create a Private Service Connect endpoint and a forwarding rule configured to use the vpc-sc bundle:

   gcloud compute addresses create restricted-psc-endpoint \
   --global \
   --purpose=PRIVATE_SERVICE_CONNECT \
   --addresses=10.0.1.1 \
   --network=restricted-vpc
   
   gcloud compute forwarding-rules create restrictedpsc \
   --global \
   --network=restricted-vpc \
   --address=restricted-psc-endpoint \
   --target-google-apis-bundle=vpc-sc

4. Configure the Cloud DNS server policy to redirect queries for Google Cloud APIs to your Private Service Connect endpoint:

   gcloud dns managed-zones create restricted-dns-zone \
     --description="Private DNS Zone to map Google API queries to the Private Service Connect endpoint for Google APIs" \
     --dns-name="googleapis.com." \
     --networks=restricted-vpc \
     --visibility=private
   
   gcloud dns record-sets create googleapis.com  \
   --rrdatas=10.0.1.1 \
   --type=A \
   --ttl=300 \
   --zone=restricted-dns-zone
   
   gcloud dns record-sets create *.googleapis.com  \
   --rrdatas="googleapis.com." \
   --type=CNAME \
   --ttl=300 \
   --zone=restricted-dns-zone

5. Configure a firewall rule at a low priority to deny all egress traffic:

   gcloud compute firewall-rules create deny-all-egress \
   --priority=65534 \
   --direction=egress \
   --network=restricted-vpc \
   --action=DENY \
   --rules=all \
   --destination-ranges=0.0.0.0/0

6. Configure a firewall rule at a higher priority to allow traffic to reach the IP address used by your Private Service Connect endpoint:

   gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-psc-for-google-apis \
   --priority=1000 \
   --direction=egress \
   --network=restricted-vpc \
   --action=ALLOW \
   --rules=tcp:443 \
   --destination-ranges=10.0.1.1

   These firewall rules deny egress broadly, before selectively allowing egress to the Private Service Connect endpoint. This configuration denies egress traffic to the default domains that are normally reachable by default with Private Google Access and the implied firewall rules.

Create a VPC Service Controls perimeter

In this section, you create a VPC Service Controls perimeter.

Note: This tutorial implements an enforced perimeter because there are no production resources inside the perimeter. If you're adding a perimeter to existing production projects, we recommend testing with dry run mode before enforcing.

1. In Cloud Shell, create an access policy as a prerequisite to create a VPC Service Controls perimeter:

   gcloud access-context-manager policies create \
   --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID --title "Access policy at organization node"

   The output is similar to the following:

   "Create request issued
   Waiting for operation [operations/accessPolicies/123456789/create/123456789] to complete...done."
   

   There can only be one access policy container at the organization node. If a policy has already been created in your organization, the output is similar to the following:

   "ALREADY_EXISTS: Policy already exists with parent ContainerKey{containerId=organizations/123456789012, numericId=123456789012}"
   

   If you see this message, continue to the next step.

2. Create a VPC Service Controls perimeter that restricts the Cloud Storage and Compute Engine services.

   export POLICY_ID=$(gcloud access-context-manager policies list \
   --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID \
   --format="value(name)")
   
   gcloud access-context-manager perimeters create demo_perimeter \
   --title="demo_perimeter" \
   --resources=projects/$(gcloud projects describe PROJECT_ID --format="value(projectNumber)") \
   --restricted-services="storage.googleapis.com,compute.googleapis.com" \
   --enable-vpc-accessible-services \
   --policy=$POLICY_ID \
   --vpc-allowed-services="RESTRICTED-SERVICES"

   Caution: In this tutorial, you restrict only the Compute Engine and Cloud Storage services. In a production perimeter, we recommend that you restrict all supported services to mitigate a range of exfiltration paths.
   The sample perimeter configures --vpc-allowed-services flag with the alias value RESTRICTED-SERVICES to allow traffic from this VPC to the same set of services you define with the --restricted-services flag.

Verify the services allowed from traffic outside your perimeter

The following sections demonstrate how the VPC Service Controls perimeter allows or denies access to requests made from outside of the perimeter and how you can selectively allow ingress to services by configuring access levels and ingress policies.

To simulate traffic from outside your perimeter, you can run commands in Cloud Shell. Cloud Shell is a resource outside your own project and perimeter. The perimeter allows or denies requests even though the requests have sufficient Identity and Access Management privileges to succeed.

This tutorial uses the Compute Engine API, Cloud Storage API, and Cloud Resource Manager API, but the same concepts apply to other services as well.

Verify that the perimeter denies external traffic to restricted services

In this section, you verify that the perimeter denies external traffic to restricted services.

The previous diagram illustrates how an authorized client is denied access to services inside the perimeter that you configured as restricted, but the client is allowed access to services that you did not configure as restricted.

In the following steps, you verify this concept by using Cloud Shell to attempt to create a VM inside your VPC network, which fails due to the configuration of the VPC Service Controls perimeter.

1. In Cloud Shell, run the following command to create a VM inside your VPC network.

   gcloud compute instances create demo-vm \
       --machine-type=e2-micro \
       --subnet=restricted-subnet \
       --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform \
       --no-address

   The output is similar to the following:

   "ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.create) Could not fetch resource:
   - Request is prohibited by organization's policy."
   

   The request fails because Cloud Shell is outside of your perimeter, and Compute Engine is configured with the --restricted-services flag.

2. In Cloud Shell, run the following command to access the Resource Manager service, which is not configured in the --restricted-services flag.

   gcloud projects describe PROJECT_ID

   A successful response returns the details of your project. This response demonstrates that your perimeter allows external traffic to the Cloud Resource Manager API.

   You have demonstrated that the perimeter denies external traffic to services configured in --restricted-services and allows external traffic to services not explicitly configured in--restricted-services.

The following sections introduce exception patterns to reach restricted services inside the perimeter.

Verify that an access level allows an exception to the perimeter

In this section, you verify that an access level allows an exception to the perimeter. An access level is useful when you want to create an exception for external traffic to access all restricted services inside the perimeter and you don't require granular exceptions for each service or other attributes.

The previous diagram illustrates how an access level allows an authorized client to access all the restricted services inside the perimeter.

In the following steps, you verify this concept by creating an access level and then making a successful request to the Compute Engine service. This request is allowed even you configured Compute Engine as restricted.

1. From Cloud Shell, create a YAML file that describes the configuration of an access level and apply it to your perimeter. This sample creates an access level for the user identity that you're currently using to run the tutorial.

   export USERNAME=$(gcloud config list account --format "value(core.account)")
   
   cat <<EOF > user_spec.yaml
   - members:
     - user:$USERNAME
   EOF
   

   gcloud access-context-manager levels create single_user_level \
   --title="single-user access level" \
   --basic-level-spec=user_spec.yaml \
   --policy=$POLICY_ID
   
   gcloud access-context-manager perimeters update demo_perimeter \
   --add-access-levels=single_user_level \
   --policy=$POLICY_ID

2. From Cloud Shell, run the following command again to attempt to create a VM:

   gcloud compute instances create demo-vm \
   --machine-type=e2-micro \
   --subnet=restricted-subnet \
   --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform \
   --no-address

   This time, the request works. Your perimeter prevents external traffic from using the restricted services, but the access level that you configured allows an exception.

   Note: After you update a service perimeter, it can take some time for the changes to propagate and take effect. If you receive an unexpected result, wait a minute and try again after the perimeter has fully updated.

Verify that an ingress policy allows a granular exception to the perimeter

In this section, you verify that an ingress policy allows a granular exception to the perimeter. Compared to the coarse-grained access level, a fine-grained ingress policy can configure additional attributes about the traffic source and allow access to individual services or methods.

The previous diagram illustrates how an ingress policy allows an authorized client to access only a specified service inside the perimeter, without allowing access to other restricted services.

In the following steps, you verify this concept by replacing the access level with an ingress policy that allows an authorized client to access only the Compute Engine service, but does not allow access to other restricted services.

1. From the Cloud Shell tab, run the following command to remove the access level.

   gcloud access-context-manager perimeters update demo_perimeter \
   --policy=$POLICY_ID \
   --clear-access-levels

2. From the Cloud Shell tab, create an ingress policy that allows your user identity to ingress to the Compute Engine service only, and apply the policy to your perimeter.

   cat <<EOF > ingress_spec.yaml
   - ingressFrom:
       identities:
       - user:$USERNAME
       sources:
       - accessLevel: '*'
     ingressTo:
       operations:
       - methodSelectors:
         - method: '*'
         serviceName: compute.googleapis.com
       resources:
       - '*'
   EOF
   

   gcloud access-context-manager perimeters update demo_perimeter \
   --set-ingress-policies=ingress_spec.yaml \
   --policy=$POLICY_ID

3. From the Cloud Shell tab, run the following command to create a Cloud Storage bucket inside the perimeter.

   gcloud storage buckets create gs://PROJECT_ID-01

   The output is similar to the following:

   "ERROR: (gcloud.storage.buckets.create) HTTPError 403: Request is prohibited by organization's policy."
   

   Cloud Shell is a client outside the perimeter, so the VPC Service Controls perimeter blocks Cloud Shell from communicating with restricted services inside the perimeter.

4. From the Cloud Shell tab, run the following command to make a request to the Compute Engine service inside the perimeter.

   gcloud compute instances describe demo-vm --zone=ZONE

   A successful response returns the details of demo-vm. This response demonstrates that your perimeter allows external traffic that meets the conditions of your ingress policy to the Compute Engine service.

Verify the services allowed from traffic inside your perimeter

The following sections demonstrate how the VPC Service Controls perimeter allows or denies requests to services from inside the perimeter, and how you can selectively allow egress to external services by egress policies.

To demonstrate the difference between traffic inside and outside the perimeter, the following sections use both Cloud Shell outside the perimeter and a Compute Engine instance you create inside the perimeter. Commands that you run from the SSH session on the Compute Engine instance inside the perimeter use the identity of the attached service account, whereas commands run from Cloud Shell outside the perimeter use your own identity. When following the recommended setup for the tutorial, the perimeter allows or denies requests even though the requests have sufficient IAM privileges to succeed.

This tutorial uses the Compute Engine API, Cloud Storage API, and Cloud Resource Manager API, but the same concepts apply to other services as well.

Verify that the perimeter allows internal traffic to restricted services inside the perimeter

In this section, you verify that the perimeter allows traffic from network endpoints inside your perimeter if the service is also configured in VPC accessible services.

The previous diagram illustrates how a perimeter allows traffic from network endpoints inside the perimeter to reach restricted services that you also configured as VPC accessible services. Services that you did not configure as VPC accessible services cannot be reached from network endpoints inside the perimeter.

In the following steps, you verify this concept by establishing an SSH connection to the Compute Engine instance inside the perimeter, then making requests to services.

1. From Cloud Shell, create a firewall rule that allows SSH traffic to your VPC network by allowing ingress from the 35.235.240.0/20 IP address range that's used by the IAP for TCP forwarding service:

   gcloud compute firewall-rules create demo-allow-ssh \
   --direction=INGRESS \
   --priority=1000 \
   --network=restricted-vpc \
   --action=ALLOW \
   --rules=tcp:22 \
   --source-ranges=35.235.240.0/20 

2. Start an SSH session to this instance:

   gcloud compute ssh demo-vm --zone=ZONE

   Verify that you have successfully connected to the demo-vm instance by confirming that the command-line prompt has changed to show the hostname of your instance:

   username@demo-vm:~$
   

   If the previous command fails, you might see an error message similar to the following:

   "[/usr/bin/ssh] exited with return code [255]"
   

   In this case, the Compute Engine instance might not have completed booting up. Wait a minute and then try again.

3. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, verify the services that your perimeter allows internally by using a Google Cloud service that is configured in the VPC accessible services allowlist. For example, try any command using the Compute Engine service.

   gcloud compute instances describe demo-vm --zone=ZONE

   A successful response returns the details of demo-vm. This response demonstrates that your perimeter allows internal traffic to the Compute Engine API.

4. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, verify that the services not included in the VPC accessible services allowlist are not allowed from your VM. For example, the following command uses the Resource Manager service, which is not configured in the VPC accessible services allowlist.

   gcloud projects describe PROJECT_ID

   The output is similar to the following:

   "ERROR: (gcloud.projects.list) PERMISSION_DENIED: Request is prohibited by organization's policy."
   

   Your Compute Engine instance and other network endpoints can only request services that are configured in the VPC accessible services allowlist. However, serverless resources or service traffic originating from outside your perimeter might request that service. If you want to prevent a service from being used in your project, see the Restricted Service Resource Usage policy.

Verify that the perimeter denies internal traffic to restricted services outside the perimeter

In this section, you verify that the perimeter blocks communication from services inside the perimeter to Google Cloud services outside the perimeter.

The previous diagram illustrates how internal traffic cannot communicate with restricted services outside the perimeter.

In the following steps, you verify this concept by attempting to send internal traffic to a restricted service inside the perimeter and to a restricted service outside the perimeter.

1. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, run the following command to create a storage bucket inside your perimeter. This command works because the Cloud Storage service is configured in both restricted-services and accessible-services.

   gcloud storage buckets create gs://PROJECT_ID-02

   A successful response creates the storage bucket. This response demonstrates that your perimeter allows internal traffic to the Cloud Storage service.

2. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, run the following command to read from a bucket that is outside of your perimeter. This public bucket allows read-only permission to allUsers, but the perimeter denies traffic from inside your perimeter to a restricted service outside the perimeter.

   gcloud storage cat gs://solutions-public-assets/vpcsc-tutorial/helloworld.txt

   The output is similar to the following:

   "ERROR: (gcloud.storage.objects.describe) HTTPError 403: Request is prohibited
   by organization's policy."
   

   This response demonstrates that you can use restricted services inside the perimeter, but a resource inside the perimeter cannot communicate with restricted services outside the perimeter.

Verify that an egress policy allows an exception to the perimeter

In this section, you verify that an egress policy allows an exception to the perimeter.

The previous diagram illustrates how internal traffic can communicate with a specific external resource when you grant a narrow exception with the egress policy.

In the following steps, you verify this concept by creating an egress policy then accessing a public Cloud Storage bucket outside of the perimeter allowed by the egress policy.

1. Open a new Cloud Shell session by clicking open a new tab in Cloud Shell. In subsequent steps you switch between the first tab with the SSH session inside your perimeter, and the second tab in Cloud Shell outside your perimeter where the command-line prompt begins with username@cloudshell.

2. From the Cloud Shell tab, create an egress policy that allows egress from the attached service account identity of demo-vm using the google.storage.objects.get method to a public bucket in an external project. Update the perimeter with the egress policy.

   export POLICY_ID=$(gcloud access-context-manager policies list \
   --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID \
   --format="value(name)")
   
   export SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=$(gcloud compute instances describe demo-vm \
   --zone=ZONE) \
   --format="value(serviceAccounts.email)"

   cat <<EOF > egress_spec.yaml
   - egressFrom:
       identities:
         - serviceAccount:$SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL
     egressTo:
       operations:
       - methodSelectors:
         - method: 'google.storage.objects.get'
         serviceName: storage.googleapis.com
       resources:
       - projects/950403849117
   EOF
   

   gcloud access-context-manager perimeters update demo_perimeter \
   --set-egress-policies=egress_spec.yaml \
   --policy=$POLICY_ID

3. Return to the tab with the SSH session to the VM inside your perimeter, where the command-line prompt begins with username@demo-vm.

4. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, make another request to the Cloud Storage bucket and verify it works.

   gcloud storage cat gs://solutions-public-assets/vpcsc-tutorial/helloworld.txt

   The output is similar to the following:

   "Hello world!
   This is a sample file in Cloud Storage that is viewable to allUsers."
   

   This response demonstrates that your perimeter and egress policy allow internal traffic from a specific identity to a specific Cloud Storage bucket.

   Note: After you update a service perimeter, it can take some time for the changes to propagate and take effect. If you receive an unexpected result, wait a minute and try again after the perimeter has fully updated.

5. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, you can also test other methods that weren't explicitly allowed by the egress policy exception. For example, the following command requires the google.storage.buckets.list permission which is denied by your perimeter.

   gcloud storage ls gs://solutions-public-assets/vpcsc-tutorial/*

   The output is similar to the following:

   "ERROR: (gcloud.storage.cp) Request is prohibited by organization's policy."
   

   This response demonstrates that your perimeter denies internal traffic from listing objects in the external bucket, indicating that the egress policy narrowly allows explicitly specified methods.

For more references on common patterns for sharing data outside of your service perimeter, see secure data exchange with ingress and egress rules.

(Optional) Configure the Restricted Service Resource Usage policy

You might also have internal requirements or compliance requirements to allow only individually approved APIs to be used in your environment. In this case you might also configure the Restricted Service Resource Usage Organization Policy Service. By applying the Organization Policy in a project, you restrict which services can be created in that project. However, the Organization Policy does not prevent services in this project from communicating with services in other projects. In comparison, VPC Service Controls allows you to define a perimeter to prevent communication with services outside the perimeter.

For example, if you define an Organization Policy to allow Compute Engine and deny Cloud Storage in your project, a VM in this project could not create a Cloud Storage bucket in your project. However, the VM can make requests to a Cloud Storage bucket in another project, so exfiltration with the Cloud Storage service is still possible. The following steps show how to implement and test this scenario:

1. Switch to the Cloud Shell tab, where the command-line prompt begins with username@cloudshell.

2. From the Cloud Shell tab, create a YAML file describing the Organization Policy Service that will only allow usage of the Compute Engine service and deny all other services, and then apply it to your project.

   cat <<EOF > allowed_services_policy.yaml
   constraint: constraints/gcp.restrictServiceUsage
   listPolicy:
     allowedValues:
     - compute.googleapis.com
     inheritFromParent: true
   EOF
   

   gcloud resource-manager org-policies set-policy allowed_services_policy.yaml \
   --project=PROJECT_ID

3. Return to the tab with the SSH session to the VM inside your perimeter, where the command-line prompt begins with username@demo-vm.

4. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, run the following command to view the same storage bucket you previously created inside this project.

   gcloud storage buckets describe gs://PROJECT_ID

   The output is similar to the following:

   "ERROR: (gcloud.storage.buckets.create) HTTPError 403: Request is disallowed by organization's constraints/gcp.restrictServiceUsage constraint for 'projects/123456789' attempting to use service 'storage.googleapis.com'."
   

   This response demonstrates that Organization Policy Service denies the Cloud Storage service inside your project, regardless of the configuration of your perimeter.

   Note: After you update an Organization Policy Service, it can take some time for the changes to propagate and take effect. If you receive an unexpected result, wait a minute and try again after the perimeter has fully updated.

5. From the SSH session inside your perimeter, run the following command to view a storage bucket outside the perimeter that is allowed by your egress policy.

   gcloud storage cat gs://solutions-public-assets/vpcsc-tutorial/helloworld.txt

   The output is similar to the following:

   "Hello world!
   This is a sample file in Cloud Storage that is viewable to allUsers."
   

   A successful response returns the content of helloworld.txt in the external storage bucket. This response demonstrates that your perimeter and egress policy allows internal traffic to reach an external storage bucket under certain limited conditions, but the Organization Policy Service denies the Cloud Storage service in your project regardless of the configuration of your perimeter. Services outside your project might still be used for exfiltration if they are allowed by your perimeter, regardless of the Restricted Service Resource Usage Organization Policy Service.

   To deny communication with Cloud Storage or other Google services outside the perimeter, the Restricted Service Resource Usage Organization Policy Service alone is not sufficient, you must configure a VPC Service Controls perimeter. VPC Service Controls mitigates data exfiltration paths, and Restricted Service Resource Usage is a compliance control to prevent creating unapproved services inside your environment. Use these controls together to block a range of exfiltration paths to and selectively allow approved services for internal use in your environment.

Clean up

Caution: Deleting a project has the following effects:

• Everything in the project is deleted. If you used an existing project for the tasks in this document, when you delete it, you also delete any other work you've done in the project.
• Custom project IDs are lost. When you created this project, you might have created a custom project ID that you want to use in the future. To preserve the URLs that use the project ID, such as an appspot.com URL, delete selected resources inside the project instead of deleting the whole project.

If you plan to explore multiple architectures, tutorials, or quickstarts, reusing projects can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.

Delete a Google Cloud project:

gcloud projects delete PROJECT_ID

Although the VPC Service Controls perimeter does not generate any additional cost, it should be cleaned up to avoid clutter and unused resources in your organization.

1. In the project selector at the top of the Google Cloud console, select the organization you used during this tutorial.

2. In the Google Cloud console, go to the VPC Service Controls page.

   Go to VPC Service Controls

3. Under the list of perimeters, select the perimeter you want to delete and click Delete.

4. In the dialog, click Delete again to confirm deletion.

What's next

• Learn about best practices for enabling VPC Service Controls.
• Learn about which services are supported on VPC Service Controls.
• Learn how to enable VPC accessible services.
• Read about the configuration of Private Service Connect to access Google APIs.

• For more reference architectures, diagrams, tutorials, and best practices, explore the Cloud Architecture Center.