Concepts

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking overview

• Overview of VPC

  An introduction to VPC functionality.

Core VPC concepts

• VPC networks

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

• Firewall rules

  Firewall rules let you control whether virtual machines (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 about VPC packet handling, throughput measurement, and the like.

• Legacy networks

  Explains legacy (non-VPC) Google Cloud networks.

VPC network sharing and peering

• Shared VPC

  Allows other projects in your Google Cloud organization to create instances and resources in a Shared VPC network.

• VPC Network Peering

  Allows another VPC network to reach your VPC network by using internal IP addresses.

VM IP addresses and interfaces

• IP addresses

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

• Alias IP ranges

  Assigns 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

  Information about giving a Compute Engine VM instance more than one network interface. Each interface exists in a different VPC network.

Packet Mirroring

• Packet Mirroring

  Clone traffic from mirrored sources and send it to a collector destination.

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 Cloud NAT gateway, a Cloud VPN gateway, and other special configurations.