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.

• 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 Google Access

  Allows VM instances in a VPC network subnet to reach Google APIs even if the VMs don't have external IP addresses.

• VMs as Network Appliances

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