Virtual Private Cloud
A VPC is a networking service for your Google Cloud workloads, such as Compute Engine VMs or GKE. It is commonly referred to as a logical representation of a network in a cloud. Unlike a physical network in a data center, all its complex networking aspects are abstracted, allowing users to focus solely on consumption rather than configuration.
A VPC is a global service that consists of one or more subnets that can be created in the same or different Google Cloud regions. Google Cloud uses subnets to organize and manage resources in a VPC by dividing it into regional segments. A subnet is identified by a region and an IP range defined in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. CIDR can be described as a group of IP addresses used by a network (a subnet, in this case). It looks like a regular IP address but ends with a slash and a number. The number after the slash tells you how many addresses are within the range. For example, a CIDR IP address in IPv4...
