Concepts

VPC networking overview

• Overview of VPC

  An introduction to VPC functionality.

Core VPC concepts

• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks

  Your VPC network provides networking functionality for your Google Cloud Platform resources.

• Firewall rules

  Firewall rules let you control whether VMs are allowed to send or receive specified connections.

• Firewall Rules Logging

  Firewall Rules Logging allows you audit, verify, and analyze the effects of your firewall rules.

• Routes

  Routes govern how traffic leaving a VM instance is forwarded.

• Advanced VPC concepts

  Provides lower level details on VPC packet handling, throughput measurement, and the like.

• Legacy networks

  Explanation on legacy (non-VPC) GCP networks.

VPC network sharing and peering

• Shared VPC

  Allow other projects in your GCP org to create instances and resources in a shared VPC network.

• VPC Network Peering

  Allow another VPC network to reach your VPC network via internal IP addresses.

VM IP addresses and interfaces

• IP addresses

  Learn about IP addresses in Google Cloud Platform. (Hosted in the Compute Engine documentation.)

• Alias IP ranges

  Assign a range of IP addresses to a Compute Engine VM instance for use by containers or other services running on the VM.

• Multiple network interfaces

  Give a Compute Engine virtual machine instance more than one network interface. Each interface exists in a different VPC network.

Special configurations

• Private access options for services

  Options for hosts with internal (RFC 1918) IP addresses to connect to different services.

• Special configurations for VM instances

  Provides instructions for setting up a Compute Engine VM instance as a NAT gateway, a VPN gateway, and other special configurations.